On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't afford to lose 20 or 30 pounds?" He said, "Well, a person in your category." I said, "What is that category, doctor?" He said, "Well, you're what I call upwardly middle aged." And I said, "I forgive you for everything."

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.