I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of 'you' to the world.

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.

I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

A consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.