Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.

I am lucky in marriage and in dogs.

Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.

Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can."--from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

I'm on a diet as my skin doesn't fit me anymore.

Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.

Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.

Speaking of which, would you like to explain to me how you’re alive

If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But don't wobble.