Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

Quality, relevant content can't be spotted by an algorithm. You can't subscribe to it. You need people - actual human beings - to create or curate it.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

A name is a solemn thing.

Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective.

Matches don't come any bigger than FA Cup quarter-finals

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?