Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.

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.

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler... complicated, that is.

I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.

Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

Any work of art dignifies life.

I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.

I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

Of all the gifts You have offered to God, Your happiness-gift He treasures most.