Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Riding a Dragon is amazing, exhilarating, and murder on the thighs.

There is more to someone being lovable than the way they look.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.

People are still people no matter how you cut it.

When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose from days gone by?

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.