The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.