Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.

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.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.

Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.

Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior

For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.