Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Quick decisions made in anger, usually end in regret.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.

How much trouble did the Democrats cause for a particular nominee on the way to actually being confirmed.And usually it's very little.

I like to smoke a pipe, because it's the punch line indicator. Whenever I take a hit of the pipe, you should be laughing.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.