Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened -- Anatole France

How we behave toward cats here below, determines our status in heaven -- Robert A. Heinlein

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort -- Paul Corey, Do Cats Think?

...the only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be 'This is the cat's cat. -- ' Elmer Davis, "On Being Kept by a Cat

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative -- Life Andrew Lang, "On Observing His Cats

With all creatures I am in deep soul harmony. We are related - I feel it within my heart. And for that reason I love them -- Wilhelm Busch

God requires that we assist the animals when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection -- St. Francis of Assisi

Animal protection is educatin to the humanity -- Albert Schweitzer

Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain, but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them -- Denis de Rougement

The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different -- Hippocrotes

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again -- Mark Twain

Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog -- a cat's a cat -- T.S. Eliot

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! -- Theophile Gautier

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats -- Unknown

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats -- English Proverb

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? -- Fernand Mery

A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world -- Irish Legend

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their mnds than we are aware of -- Sir Walter Scott

A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petter and properly revered cat, may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove its title? -- Mark Twain

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats -- Colonial American proverb