To love is to admire with the heart to admire is to love with the mind.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

Modesty was made for the ugly.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.

I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.

You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

I don't care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out