I'm none too big on giving advice, ' Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.

When undesirable and ugly addendum enters a man's life history, it become acceptable as part of the process of growing up.

The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.