Actions lie louder than words.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.

Put your Body First!

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap.

Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"

Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.