Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it, the very depths of his soul.

I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.

I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.

I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.

America is on her deathbed.

Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.

you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.