Having our old Gran in the car was like having a cranky 'Tassie Tiger' sitting in the back. You never knew when she might jump forward and bite you on the back of your neck.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.

..it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.