Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

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.

A definite recipe for success is when you take persistent action on a strong definite goal.

God created every heart, every person for relationship.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.

His screaming stallions maned with whistling wind.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.

Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.