There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

I do like the world quite a lot.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

My heart’s so light it floats and carries me so my feet don’t walk. I sing all day and I don’t mind the washing, and that’s how I know I’m in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.

One of the greatest purposes a man/woman can ever be indulged in is the positive evolution of self for the selfless service to humanity.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.