My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.