Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait.

Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

Unless you're lead dog, the scenery never changes.

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

Teenagers think they are invincible

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.