Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Patience is the food of understanding.

Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.

I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.