Give a pup a home and a little love and he will give you his heart forever.

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.

He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the business of living he wanted nothing to do with.

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.

I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow.

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

A flaw is really beauty owned by nobody else. I think everyone is beautiful.

One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.