Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.