Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

True ownership of anything requires time.

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

It is raining! In other words little poems are coming down from the sky! Nature is literature! Sun is a fable

So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!