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

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.