It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said 'Remember my son if you ever need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents and only one for birthday presents you know.

It is lovely when I forget all birthdays including my own to find that somebody remembers me.

The way I see it you should live everyday like its your birthday.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

All the world is birthday cake so take a piece but not too much.

Every year on your birthday you get a chance to start new.

I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Beauty is the still birth of suffering every woman knows that.

Beauty unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth does not require dedication patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse the illicit the absurd.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth a high IQ or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera theater music and dance are thriving all over the world but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

And currently there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Federation my 50th Birthday and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

I made some friends who are still friends and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here but it's an amazing city and I love it.

Everyone says 'You give birth you go home and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.