Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

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.

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. [Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

At the end of the day, when the food has all been served and savored, what's left is your connection to the people around your fire

Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.