If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

One who seeks to control others is one who suffers from the affliction of fear.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

A lot of time we didn't know where we were going or how it was going to transition from fishnets into hip-hop ... But it's worked out. We believe in what we do and I think people get that.

As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.

Every day we're given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.