You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

The time for lies and secrets is over, " she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago.

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

If you decide on your direction, God will give you the energy for the distance.

The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.