Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

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.

Success and failure are largely the results of our habitual thoughts & many people create by default. — Marie Cunningham

You’re noble enough, Baudelaires. That’s all we can ask for in this world.

Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!

If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.