It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.

Let's have some new cliches.

Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own territory

I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

As I always have with stand-up or anything, you kind of draw on what you're going through in your life.

Giving something your time isn't the same as giving it your attention.

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.