"Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neighter are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being." -- Gary Kowalski --

 "Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do." -- Betty White --

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." -- James Herriot -- 

 "Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter." -- Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way --