Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.

Animals are inspirational. They don’t know how to lie. They are natural forces.

Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.

The cat is the beautiful devil.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

It doesn’t matter who we are or where we’ve been, God sent His Son for us – that’s the beauty of the Gospel.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

When'er into thine eyes I see, All pain and sorrow fly from me. [Ger., Wenn ich in deine Augen sch' So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh.]

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

Verily, God is Compassionate and is fond of compassion, and He gives to the compassionate what He does not give to the harsh.

Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable