I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.

Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted.

I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

There is no such thing as a difficult dog, only an inexperienced owner.

I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.

one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.

Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

There is nothing a pig loves more than a good bath, with a loofah and plenty of soap flakes ... There is something delightfully lovable about a really clean pig, in clean yellow straw.

Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.

Whatever you dream of is a possibility.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

As an actor, I look at first what I can borrow from what I really feel.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.

My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it