Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.