"Step with care and great tact And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left."

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

"You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]"

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."

"In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them."

"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."

"Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be."

"He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun"

"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!"