If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

We all have to meet our match sometime or other.

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.