There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

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.

The greatest treasures are invisible by the eye but found by the HEART. For where your treasure is, there your heart would also BE

Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing.

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost.

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.