There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

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.

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.

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

Perfectionism is not the path that leads us to our gifts and to our sense of purpose

I'm the poster boy for Propecia. It's amazing.

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

The leaders in Washington have got to come together in a bipartisan way and do the right thing for the people who are being left behind. We cannot have an America that is only based on the wealthy.

There is a remote tribe that worships the number zero. Is nothing sacred?

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.