Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

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.

The highest goal of a leader is to help others fulfill their purposes in life.

...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

Nothing burns like the cold.

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

In America, we are putting our energy companies out of business. We have to bring back our workers.

In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.