“Folk will know how large your soul is, by the way you treat a dog.”

“It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?”

“Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll treat you like dogs.”

“Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you,’ And then treat us that way?”

“Go round cringing like a dog, Matt," he said, "and folks will treat you like one. Stand up like a man, and they'll treat you like a man." That was fine for Weaver, but I wondered sometimes, How exactly do you stand up like a man when you're a girl?”

“The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls”