A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge, but understanding is the beginning of wisdom.

:You Can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the most tremendous things by faith power.

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service.

We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.

New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself.