A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

I believe that when you do what you love, you find higher levels of satisfaction that can compensate for lower income.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

I still love Birkenstocks. I just think they are the most comfortable things; I even wear them in winter sometimes.