How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law.

You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

I've grown extremely tired of the face of the world.

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

I've waited all my life to say this... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!