I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

How can something so . . . huge happen so fast?

I could easily not act again. It's not a problem.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.