Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.

I remain someone of little consequence, as if nothing more than dandelion fluff caught on a breeze.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Some pray to marry the man they love my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.

A good teacher is a determined person.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done with it, the better.

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.