Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.