O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

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.

They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all.

Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

If you're not prepared to give some truly independent thought to what this world is all about, then what is the point of being alive?

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music