In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-off at tedium and counter productivity.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
Humour is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of surprises.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Written on her tombstone: I told you I was sick.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
My second favourite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
He danced along the dingy days, and this bequest of wings was but a book.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a bird or two, to take a backward look.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
It is the quality of our work which will please god and not the quantity.
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.