"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible"

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Business is the salt of life"