To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

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.

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

When you don't have love, it's like there's a party going on, and everybody was invited, except for you. And you just happened to be walking by that house in the rain...

Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more...

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.