When I was little I thought isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.

I'm amazed. When I was 40 I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60 I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

The return of my birthday if I remember it fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Speaking of Twitter I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009 as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend confidante intellectual soul mate co-parent inspiration.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend but often those which meet the peculiar wants the natural thirst of his mind and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.