Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law.

You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

All of the worlds problems can be solved in the garden

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.