Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.