Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.

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.

Only a person who has lost somebody can understand the pain.

Every time he saw her he realised the reason why they always said humans are made of stardust.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

I live a real life so I forget to take pictures.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

I'm dating my celebrity crush!

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.