Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

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.

The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.

My balls shrank in terror. I was convinced we were going to die.

People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did.

Really what Brutus and Cassius do by assassinating Caesar, is open up a vacuum into which much more ruthless people run. Julius Caesar is an amazingly contemporary, resonant, politically astute play.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

You can't work on the biceps and ignore the rest of the body, and you can't just say one issue is important when you are looking at how to make the world a better place.

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.