There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.

Support your right to arm bears.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

During these hard times in the world we should always remember to keep our families and friends close.

Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Having done television, I was used to either being aware whether I got the part within the same day, or within two, three days max.

I think I've inspired a lot of people, and I'm one, if I get a letter and someone's in serious shape, I'll call them. I relate to these people.

A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.