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.

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.

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

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.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

One can't step into the river twice

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.

Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

I don't think making love the new bottom line is naïve; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naïve.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.