“Pets are like infants that never grow up. Forever children. We love them for that.”

Love is the greatest and most excellent thing we are masters of and therefore it is folly and baseness to bestow it unworthily. It is indeed the only thing we can call our own: other things may be taken from us by violence, but none can ravish our love.

Moreover, as I was still in the prime of life, it pleased me better to be up and doing.

I was stubborn and refused to chase, I threw my ego away and chased; it does not matter. Some people are just not meant to be.

If you obey the majority of those on earth, they will lead you astray from God’s way. They follow nothing but conjecture. They are only guessing.

The trouble is that we live far from ourselves and have but little wish to get any nearer to ourselves. Indeed we are running away all the time to avoid coming face to face with our real selves, and we barter the truth for trifles.

All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.

The sun was a pewter coin in a leaden sky.

Act as though the maxim of your action were to become, through your will, a universal law of nature.

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

The grasses toss and shimmy. The horses nicker. Madame Manec says, almost whispering, Now that I think about it, child, I expect heaven is a lot like this.

Let not the wise disturb the mind of the unwise in their selfish work. Let him, working with devotion, show them the joy of good work.

For some reason I think I could have been capable of great evil. Maybe that’s the guilt.

Therefore the doubts which have arisen in your heart out of ignorance should be slashed by the weapon of knowledge.

The body achieves what the mind believes.

So be patient, for God’s promise is true: do not let those with no firm beliefs discourage you.

That is so personal, and it’s my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it’s always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

I had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.

Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.

Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.