However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.

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 not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

Beauty's witching sway is now to me a star that's fallen-a dream that's passed away.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.