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I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

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

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

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.