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

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 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.

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

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.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

[ Gareth Edwards] never wanted to force anything that wasn't true. He's very much an actor's director, and it was loose.

Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.