Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

Authors do not supply imaginations.

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

What do you love to fulfill in life?

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

Put all your eggs in one basket. Then you're less likely to drop that basket.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

I dont have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

Before the final curtain goes down On my life, I shall say to my Mother-Earth, "My gratitude-heart is all for you, All for you."

51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

I'm always in range of a microphone. I even have a studio at home.