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

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

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.

How?’ a still shaken Nechtan demanded.Britha had always hated to give magic as an answer. More often than not, another answer could be found.‘Magic, ’ she said.

From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change.

You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!