The wages of sin is alimony.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains

It's the sustained ability to change that really counts.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

Dreams are reality waiting to happen

Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace.

I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so that you [Darn] Well Know There's A Symbol Here.

You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.