If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around
Will Rogers

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
Robert Louis Stevenson

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. . . .He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. . . .When all other friends desert, he remains
George Graham Vest