A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, this very morning, may begin a day of fascination, easily grander than any day in the past.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.

It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership.

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.

Once they become AKC registered, the newspapers will become flooded with ads for them. And you'll see Border collies in pet stores and animal shelters.

Without struggle, success has no value.

I always say my biological clock must be digital, because I've never heard it ticking.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them.

The bottleneck wasn't, How do we make pixels prettier? It was, How do we engage with them more?

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him