Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

In this waiting, there is witness.

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the process ran, I've been a fan of science and SF ever since.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.

In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life

Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.

I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I'd describe it.