The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

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.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

After Psychonauts went on to be very, very popular in Europe, I got busy with my next big project: being unemployed.

The crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty

Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.

Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.