The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.

Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.

I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

A sound soul, dwells within a sound mind, and a sound body.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.

Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

The greatest movies are the ones you want to watch again and again.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.