If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

I believe adopting free unstructured play, within an appropriate framework, has rich potential in bringing up happy, well-balanced and resilient children.

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Love me for what I amNot what I try to be.Love me for what I am.I amA person who likes to lie too much.I try too muchTo impress other people...Often my inferiors.

No two snowflakes are alike and neither are the Soldier's in your charge. Don't make the mistake of treating your Soldier's like tangible things instead of the valued human assets they are.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.