Cats don't fight for their rights; they take them for granted. They have a right to be fed, watered, stroked on demand and supplied with a lap and a clean commode

Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

Dogs have their day but cats have 365.

No one ever owns a cat...you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects...although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal.

...if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!

The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea.

Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?

When you don't know what to do with yourself, do something for someone else.

Spirituality is for people. It’s not just for those who you might have read about in books, it’s for people.

Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?

Anger is the mirror image of fear. It begins as fear, and is expressed outwardly as anger.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.

We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays.

How in the world do you get mad at somebody for wanting to be black? That's something for which you should get a gold star. That makes you really sensitive. That makes you a really quality person.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.