Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole

Being patted is what it is all about.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

If you can’t control it, you will be the toy of your own mind!

The need is what is necessary.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

I actually was worried about the pounding, but I actually love running more than working out on the elliptical. Now if I get on the elliptical, I feel like I'm trapped.

When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.