Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.

Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.

Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.

In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination.

What is the point of living forever if you are stuck on a permanent diet of leaves and twigs?

Oh! lovely voices of the skyWhich hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

We've never been happier. Things are great. . . I just don't go into her part of the house.

In the quest for fortune and fame...don't forget about the simple things.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

When Wu-Wear started making shoes and sneakers and pants, it was shoddy material.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.