Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.