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.

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.

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.

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.

Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

Many paths lead to the Door of Enlightenment. Beware those that proclaim there is but one.

Systems run the business and people run the systems.

Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.