Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or Food or Fancy Dress, / But I shall take a Bath.

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.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

I don't have control over everything; God has control over everything and I trust him, so I don't worry.

He said my name the way diabetics talked about hot fudge sundaes.

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.