Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

To see happiness of others, that is what is our religion.

The only woman who would wear a gown like this one, love, is one who knows the power she wields and isn’t afraid to use it.

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.

Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?

If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.