Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

In space you don't stop.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.

Our vision controls the way we think and, therefore, the way we act the vision we have of our jobs determines what we do and the opportunities we see or don't see.

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory)

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.