“We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that...it's a lion.”

“The only difference between him and a lion is that a lion does not laugh.”

“Your hair is a tangled mess,"he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane.”

“the lion sleeps in the sun.its nose on its paws.it can kill a man.”

“There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.”

“Though I understand the theology behind it, the image does not bring me peace; it makes me feel sorry for the lion. It strips him of his essence, the fundamental part of his being. A lion that does not behave as a lion i snot a lion. It isn't even the lion's opposite. It's a mockery of a lion.”

“A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.”