I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.

Passion is taking such a bite out of life that when the juices run down your face, everyone licks their lips!

Stay disciplined, work hard, always believe in your dreams and go after them.

The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.

If you're not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don't exist.

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.