I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.

I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

Chicken is Good! It tastes like chicken.

Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.

Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.

The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.

Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies.

Memory changes as a person matures.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer.

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.