After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

Your vile and bitter diatribes only serve to show how vile and bitter you must be.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

I think we need an American jobs agenda for the climate challenge which means American renewable grid, more renewable energy.

I'm learning to say 'y'all' and, I like grits... Strange things are happening to me.

I believe you should be comfortable in your skin no matter what you go through - emotionally or whatever - as long as youre healthy.

A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.