Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

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.

I travel, always arriving in the same place.

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.

Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.