A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart. 
The begonia is an amazing plant ... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again. 
If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June. 
Nothing makes a house cozier than cats. 
There is a kind of immortality in every garden. 
Christmas is a kindling of new fires. 
Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring. 
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. 
The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday. 
What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know? 
April is a promise of what's to come. 
I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home. 
Nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too! 
My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone. 
The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts. 
Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality. 
Happiness is a thing of now. 
I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird. 
A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with. 
As long as you have a window, life is exciting. 
Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience. 