One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

The starting point for greatness is to know what to do with your life.

Through science, she could reach anyone at anytime around the world, but no one seemed to know what to say.

Believe in yourself and the power of your inner strength.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

I started with self gone missing.

The grace of God is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit.

Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.