“A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.”

This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.

What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig.

Civilians’ is a term I love. It’s what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren’t on TV.

When I was a kid I used to hate getting picked for team sports. It would be the fit and sporty guys over there.

I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!

And me and the fat kids over here. Those kids were fat! One girl had to be cut out a hula hoop.

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I’d gone to Africa I would have got poached.

All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a ‘magic bullet’ which on its own can solve our problems.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends.

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.

Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.

In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.