I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.

Rory McIlroy

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

C.S. Lewis

It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.

Dalai Lama, The Path to Tranquil

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Jean Baudrillard

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Charles Dudley Warner

The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.

Junius, The Letters of Junius 'D

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Edmund Burke

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Jean Racine

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

Jane Austen

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 185

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius