Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

But at the time, a mark of how far down the rabbit hole I had fallen, I saw it as just another tragedy I needed to stuff in the growing box in the back of my head. Shut the top and move on.

Our purpose is not Oneness but to realize Oneness. Oneness itself is not something to be achieved. We are One as spirit already. What we are working on is to remember and accept this Oneness.

Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

You must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the dumbest.