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I can’t imagine what my life was before. I can’t imagine ever being without you for very long again.

—Anna Godbersen in Splendor

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Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

—Gerald R. Ford

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Love is my religion — I could die for it.

—John Keats

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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

—Charles Bukowski

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A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

—Wilson Mizner

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There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.

—John Ruskin

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Sometimes our biggest mistakes give us our greatest reward.

—Kristin Billerbeck in A Girl’s Best Friend

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With foxes we must play the fox.

—Thomas Fuller

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The idea is to die young as late as possible.

—Ashley Montagu

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Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake.

—Max Picard

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The charm which Henry [Thoreau] uses for bird and frog and mink is patience. They will not come to him, or show him aright, until he becomes a log among logs, sitting still for hours in the same place; then they come around him and to him, and show themselves at home.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The sense of smell in the animal is what intuition is to the human spirit. It tells you of the invisible, of what cannot be detected by any other means. It tells you the things that are not there, yet are coming. You see into the blind, opaque past and round the corner of time.

—Laurens Van der Post

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Some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and streams and the wind and sky.

—Marguerite Henry

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The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.

—Christine Stevens

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A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for ten years. He saw and spoke to no one, and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day, an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two. … It suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.

—Anthony de Mello

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