Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

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.

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

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.

no one needs love from youmore than you need love from you.love yourself first, and you will always be in love.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

The best use anyone can make of any day is to enjoy it - and then spread that joy to others.

I am from the inner city, the ghetto. If I can use my platform to carry on a legacy and talk about something that's real, I have to do that, period.

In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

See where she comes apparelled like the spring.