Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.

They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.

It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, because you brush harder and do a better job.

A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.

The map is not the territory, " Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.

In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.

The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.

The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.

After the hockey stick, Sardara Singh scores with the broom! A great effort by him towards a Swachh Bharat.

My philosophy is if you're happy being a born - again Christian, if you're happy be­ing a Roman Catholic, if you're happy being a Jew or Moslem ... great!! I'm happy being Ozzy.