Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

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.

I can sacrifice everything for my dreams and goals encourage me or simply leave me.

Mr. ***** is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends -- whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

Remember that nothing really important ever happens until someone takes a chance.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.