I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away