What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.

Support your right to arm bears.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.

How old you are has nothing to do with how wise, smart, or mature you've actually become.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.

A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.