Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

Looking closer can make something beautiful

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

...choosing words is harder than I thought.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine

When someone is upset, it’s not a good time to bring up your own problems.

Look beneath the surface

I can push them away, fight them, or ignore them but family is something you can never get rid of.

You gotta be in the NOW to create and experience the WOW!

No success was won without self- determination and self-discipline.

If he didn't want to be mauled, he shouldn't have put himself right in my path.

When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.