The old men know when an old man dies.

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.

The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation?

God gives abilities, talents and gifts to help you get established in your territory.

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.

In 1995, when I was backpacking through Europe solo, I would head to the train station, look up at the big board, and decide right there and then where I would go that day.

Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

The heart is willing, the head is willing but the body's had enough.

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.