Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Kindness is the best wisdom. Simplicity is the best achievement.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.

It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

I don't like to use a microphone around my head while I'm teaching so I had to learn how to project from my stomach more.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

I wouldn't have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I'm so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It's just stupendous.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.