I am sometimes asked, “Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?” I answer, “I am working at the roots.”
—George T. Angell
I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
—Mahatma Gandhi
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
—Samuel Butler
If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.
—Nan Porter
Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it’s easy to forget they’re not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don’t say anything back.
—Stephenie Geist
There is not one world for man and one for animals; they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.
—Rigoberta Menchú
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
—Will Cuppy
When something or someone is no longer bringing you up, but pulling you down—it’s time to let go. When something or someone is no longer adding to your life, but subtracting from it—it’s time to let go.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
To forget oneself is to be happy.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.
—Jill Shalvis in Simply Irresistible
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
—Henry Drummond
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
—Frank Zappa
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
—Stephen King
Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.
—Miranda July in No One Belongs Here More Than You
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
—Luc de Clapiers