If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.