Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

Being patted is what it is all about.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Hope says to us constantly "go on go on " and leads us to the grave.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.

To meditate with humility, consider existence. It is infinite. You are finite. You are a finite portion of infinite existence. Let this be your meditation.

After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.