“If your dog doesn’t like someone, you probably shouldn’t either.”

Often, we use words in a damaging way not because we are bad people but simply because we are not paying attention. No one ever taught us how powerful words really are.

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you’ve figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of desperation.

Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it’s possible for you.

For every mountain there is a miracle.

The world responds to those who ask.

Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.

People only complain about things they can do something about.

Little acts of kindness and caring from other people rather than the negativity and anger.

Don’t censor your dreams or vision with practicalities and probabilities.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

I think when you have big dreams you attract other big dreamers.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise — the books you read and the people you meet.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then neither is bathing, but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs

How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .