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

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.

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

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

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.

Never scheme with a conniving dragon!

The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive