Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

Being patted is what it is all about.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

If consultants followed their own advice, they wouldn't tell anyone.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

Even if a fool dies, he won't be cured.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

I think there are a number of issues that we should be addressing. I have put forth a plan to defeat ISIS.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.