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.

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.

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.

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

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.

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

Profit is a by-product of success, focus on success not on profit.

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night, " the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

Great minds think alike, but lovers think as one.

God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.

Time and memory are true artists they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

My day begins and ends with gratitude and joy.

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.