I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.