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

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

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.

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.

One cloud feels lonely.

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

There is no love that is not self-love

When fear meets fear nothing good ever happens.

Intellectuals are rarely successful as leaders. They are so trapped in their ideals that they cannot venture out in the real world to win and lead.

I try to think about my goals. I think about my competitors-I know they're working hard, and if they are, I have to work hard too. I have to be one step ahead of them.

AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.