If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

Lip-synching?! Let that be a lesson. If you are in Washington, D.C., and you open your mouth and another voice comes out, it better be the NRA, an oil company or a bank.

No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

Live your life; whatever that life may be.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.