Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.

In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.

Don't allow the enemies in your life to cause you to focus more on your appetite or circumstances than on the promises of God that are released when you employ the powerful weapon of fasting.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?