To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.