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

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.

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

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.

Success starts with a Vision

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.