We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

We all have to meet our match sometime or other.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

One cloud feels lonely.

Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.

in the afterglowof an evening raini lay downin the grass and think of youmy body acheslike an after-kissbreaking in soft firesand wildflowersmy dear, i will always bethis tender for you.

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

My goals are so high that I don't have time to relax, in any way shape or form.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

Facts always are sensational.

Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world