Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

Quite definitely a Bingley

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Fear ends where love begins.

If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling.

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

Another drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, the dial goes to 60. The drunk says, "Huh. I lost 100 pounds!"

Change works most effectively when started from the inside

The Republicans or conservatives always, when it comes to judging, when it comes to legalities, always try to do the right thing even if it harms their interests.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.