Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision," you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad.

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband.

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail --- none of which is easy.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!"

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered ...Read more

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart -- far more damaging to yourself than to them."

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.