Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.

The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.

I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me but they don't.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

Consistency in life is so important for success. It stems from taking what we are doing seriously.