Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.