“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through
“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs
“Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea