Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing will never discover his own.

The character of God is an unchanging Northstar five which to find our way through a world of moral complexity.

Are they even capable of love?

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

There's no one who has the right to judge you.

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.