The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

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.

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

Reading is a sacred-paradise.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.

If you set the example you will not have to set the rules.