I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

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.

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

The Giver of Life enrages us, He intoxicates us here.No one is at His sideto be famous, to rule on Earth.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory, ' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

I never used to be as good, you get better. I've just gotten better and quicker at figuring out the joke.

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.

...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.