The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped
It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.
Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.
And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.
i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.
It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.
There's no question but that a nuclear Iran, a nuclear-capable Iran is unacceptable to America. It presents a threat not only to our friends but ultimately a threat to us to have Iran have nuclear material, nuclear weapons that could be used against us or used to be threatening to us.
To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.
but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.