Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.

Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.

With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.

In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

The only way to beat Liverpool is to score more goals than them.

Rich people expect to succeed.