Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

Love is an exorcism of angels.

Your weight is merely a symptom of your diet and lifestyle.

I'm not afraid to make mistakes. I'm afraid of not learning from them.

Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read.

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?