"Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give."

"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."

"We are wise when we learn from one another. We are strong when we contain our impulses. We are honored when we honor others."

"Love is so much better when you are not married."

"The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back."

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up."

"Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action."

"Hope is only the love of life."

"History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy."

"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'."

"Hope is necessary in every condition."