When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

He feels safer just knowing that even if he's away there is a home waiting for him to return.

The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years.

It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

I think women do work differently; it's important to have both men and women. They offer different things.