"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

"The world loves a spice of wickedness."

"There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty."

"Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves."

"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity."

"I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives."