The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

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.

The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller.The storyteller didn't exist anymore.

What you can't comprehend within your thoughts will be impossible to make real within your world.

You can make a lot of mistakes in just one lifetime. (I'll Be Waiting)

That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

For me, Marouane Fellaini has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League over the last few seasons. If he continues to improve at United, we’ll have a really good player on our hands.

Once when I'd been in a lot of bunkers, my caddie told me he was getting blisters from raking so much.

I like helping people.

Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.