No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Poor motivation and alertness cause complacency

Miracle is going to WORK with you, only if you are going to do same with Miracle..!!

...I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful...

You must act as if it's impossible to fail.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

When you're at peace with your life and in a state of tranquility, you actually send out a vibration of energy that impacts all living creatures, including plants, animals and even babies.