Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.

I do think fame can distort reality. I've always felt that.

The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.