Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

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.

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.

Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

Choose a challenge instead of competence

I stretch in the morning a lot and I do a lot of saunas and steam rooms during fashion week just to keep my blood flowing.

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.