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

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.

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.

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

Nothing is more beautiful than beauty of a kind soul.

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice.

If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.

The strongest thing I put into my body is steak and eggs. I just eat. I'm not a supplement guy. Steroids are not even a thought.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?