Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.

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

In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of those chains of molecules isn't there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, that if any one of them from Plank's minimum to the mass of a proton, if one of them is the tiniest bit off, there would be no life or possibility of it in the universe.