Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.

Support your right to arm bears.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

Living happily is a matter of holding on to your peace of mind and celebrating your life daily while you still have it.

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

Once when I'd been in a lot of bunkers, my caddie told me he was getting blisters from raking so much.

But words - words are not enough!

I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.