The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

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.

Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellow man and I will tell you how much you have loved them.

No matter how strong you plan to be, you can never subdue the pain that comes with the grudges you refuse to let go.

Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone

You don't become the best if you aren't willing to stick your hand in the fire.

If you're going to hope for a change, you'd better start to pray for a change. If you're just hoping, you ain't going anywhere.

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.