How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.

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.

You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.

He leaned down to her ear and purred. Damn but she loved when he purred.

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!