A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.