When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.

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 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.

For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.

The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball or something to have the proper respect, but we like to get rowdy.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

That night I dreamed of turduckens.