You can kid the world, but not your sister.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.

Prayer is talking to God… but it’s so much more than that… it’s the beat of our heart, the attitude of our mind, the song on our tongue, the direction of our thoughts…

If you haven't been happy very young you can still be happy later on but it's much harder. You need more luck.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law