Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

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.

The quality of life depends on the power of love.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.

Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.