When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.

I am lucky in marriage and in dogs.

Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.

Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can."--from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

The church must be involved in all seven spheres of life

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

I think, for me, I'm always more interested in the process of making the movie than the movie itself

If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

I've never stayed at a bed and breakfast. If I did, I figure you would start to get hungry! "Is that all you got around here? Well, maybe you can direct me to a chair lunch dinner."

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.