Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

You are what you are when nobody is looking.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact . . .

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

When we’re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young.

We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life.

A crafty nightrunner died of late, And found himself at Bilairy’s Gate. He stood outside and refused to knock Because he meant to pick the lock.

Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.