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

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

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw it up. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can.

Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom.

I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl to know that I really existed and that it all went down that way.

To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.

Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.