Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

True ownership of anything requires time.

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Get it out. The pain doesn't have as much power when you share it.

Excellence is the best ink with which to make your mark in the world.

Our “ministry” should be an overflowing of our lives, an overflowing of our walk with Jesus Christ! We aren’t our ministry, it’s an byproduct of our relationship with Jesus Christ!

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.

You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception. We are an awareness that is endless. The universe is only perception.

Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.