Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

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.

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

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.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Too much talking and not enough writhing in ecstasy. You will commence writhing now.

Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.

Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.

The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.

Whether a movie part comes to me or I seek it out, there's always this journey to darkness through light, or vice versa; that element has been in almost everything I've done.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.