I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.
Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.
I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.
The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.
I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.
If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.
From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.
One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.
A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge
The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.
Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.
It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.
I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.
Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.
You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?
Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'
As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.
Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.
If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.
