My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Live well, Laugh often, Love much.

What I truly desire to do, I shall dare attempt.

So age after age — will it be soon, O Lord? —Beneath the scalpel of nature and art, Our spirit screams, our flesh depletes itself, Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.("The Sixth Sense")

Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs.

Both of my parents were musicians.

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

I don't believe in God. So I'm a non-believer in the non-visible. I'm a believer in us; in humans.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

Alas. I am not an option.

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.