Catherine the Great Quotes

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

Animals represent the abstract notion of acceptance. Living with these funny creatures - you kind of have to accept them. It's like a test in a way.

From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his - really, her story can't be told without his story.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you.

There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.

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

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

In archetypes, there is the Nurturer and the Warrior. Different kinds of strengths that, ideally, complement each other and are equally respected.

I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

The world is far more interconnected today. Hence the need to understand each other is greater than ever before.

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

'The Others' books take place in an alternate Earth where the Earth natives have been the dominant predators throughout the world's history, and humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain. But humans are clever and resilient, if not always wise, and have made some bargains with the Others in order to survive.