Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust, " Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.

If the bards of old the true has toldThe sirens have raven hair.But over the earth since art had birth, They paint the angels fair.

Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Hope is what makes the human condition liveable

Kim Jong Un shaved his eyebrows and got his hair sticking right up. How would you like the leader of your country looking like Lady Gaga? Even Dennis Rodman told him he looks weird.

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect".

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.

To survive, you must tell stories.