Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever. They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

If it is impossible let's do it because nothing is impossible, if you set your mind to it.

There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction.

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

Give them back! Give my tears back, right now——with interest!!

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.