The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.

An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers, have a 14-foot animal that's eating adult rabbits, and needs quite a bit of room and quite a bit of heat. That's the animal that gets put in the back of a pick-up truck and dumped into the Florida Everglades or the city lake, or just left on a doorstep - again, it's quite often the animal that suffers.

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.