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

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.

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!

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.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

The art of living is to rise above lesser things so that we can truly enjoy great things. And the message of Christmas is the greatest of all things.

If you sought to leave the world, don’t go alone. Since there are too many bad people you can take them too.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

The weird thing about all the drag queen Patsys and Eddies from "Absolutely Fabulous" is they are so beautiful, and so tall, and so slim that it sort of puts us to shame.

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America...

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

I need problems. A good problem makes me come alive.