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

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.

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

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.

sStip settling for someone who doesn't meet your expectations and find someone whom already holds the characteristics you're looking for.

I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.

Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived.

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced for thousands of hours.

There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

He must be lightning slow.

I wouldn't mind being taller, because when I'm in the company of people who are absurdly tall, there's something about them that I can't help admiring.