I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses!

We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought there was merit in the idea? So, when we see one of those great widespread pirates soaring across the grain of sea winds we thrill, and we long, and, if we are honest, we curse that we must be men every day. Why not one day a bird! There's an idea, now, one day out of seven a pirate in the sky. What puny power a man can attain by comparison. Compare a 747 with a bird and blush!