An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.

Simply bringing awareness to the process of breathing initiates the release of peptide molecules from the hindbrain to regulate breathing while unifying all systems.

The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

Where one door shuts another opens.

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.