There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

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.

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.

Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it.

Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.

We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.