"Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God."

“I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman who can curse your name.”

“The older I get the funnier I get...Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted.”

Source : Linda Martin, Kerry Segrave (1986). “Women in Comedy”

“I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.”

“...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.”

“Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand.”

Source : Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company

“The only things that erased my lonliness were written works”

“If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.”

Source : Cooper Edens (2007). “If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night”, p.53, Chronicle Books

“You don't build yourself up by putting someone else down.”