Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.

You have a great potential.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

I'm not new to the political process; I was making a contribution as the speaker of the third largest and most diverse state in the country well before I even got into the Senate.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I ordered a soda - caffeine-free, low sodium, no artificial flavors. They brought me a glass of water.

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.