The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

Are you nervous?"... "A little." "Do you want to stop?" "No, just go slow." "I can do that." He could do any damn thing she asked of him.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset." Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.