The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

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 government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

Raise $500 for a thing you care about because you actually get the experience of taking an idea and actually doing it. There are fewer and fewer excuses not to.

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

I don't believe in hasty marriages.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

My will can control anything that’s empty.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.