I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

The Mirror Prayer I see you man in the mirror. I see you and raise you. I will be better today than you were yesterday, and tomorrow you will be better than I was today.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.