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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.