Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.

The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.

It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same.

I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.