Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

Nobody quite knows the truth about cats purring, but it does seem to be also a self-healing thing for them, which is why, when you take your cat to the vet and it's frightened, it will purr.

At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that’s what the mind is for.