It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts.

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.

Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but I don't think people really realize or understand just how wonderful and special dogs are.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

People want you to be ordinary.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.

There was the emptiness of space I was afraid to fall into, but the only real fear I’d ever actually had was to dive into the emptiness inside of myself.

Develop a can-do-spirit and be sure you are not suppressed by the naysayers whose daily actions are meant to discourage you from achieving what you believe.

Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.

My mother works in a bank and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.