New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

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.

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.

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

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Roy Bennett

It is enough to know, too much to see

That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.