Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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I drink to make other people more interesting.

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. — Benjamin Disraeli

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

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Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

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