"You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience."

"I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise."

"In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years."

"There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic."

"You don't have to be naked to be sexy."

"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment."

"It is a subtle truth that experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."