As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.
The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.
It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.
For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.