"Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others."

"On his examination paper a boy wrote, 'A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's help."

"There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there."

"Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it."

"A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say."

"Life is beautiful. Life is sad."

"Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for."

"To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

"FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection."

"There must be more to life than having everything."

"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."

"Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food."