There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

If you love somebody, tell them.

The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.

Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life.

... security is not having things

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas, but my wife wouldn't let me.

The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue