Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

Mankind advances only through struggle.

The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

They were chanting my name, but I don't know why. My name is on the back of my uniform. So, it's nice to know they can read.

However small you might be, if necessary, struggle against the mountain of evils however big it may be!

I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.