Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.

Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.

Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home

Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.

America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.

I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.