As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.