This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.

We are not born to wait. We are born to do.