No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned by a dog.

He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant.

We never really own a dog as much as she owns us.

You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home.

Who said you can not buy happiness, when you are thinking about puppies.

When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies.

Although failure is a good learning experience, you don’t have to go through life making mistakes if they can be avoided.

Prayer is not complaining but proclaiming

If you look close enough, you can see cracks in everything. And that's okay. Because when you really think about it, it's the cracks and gaps and chinks in things that let the light shine in.

Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.