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

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

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.

Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.

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