A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

Walk your own path and be yourself

I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?

He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.

If you're a racist, right now, in 2011... You just look like a retard, man.

Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

We need more guys that are solid talents all around and Frank Mir proved himself and I don't think anyone is going to second guess him every again.