A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

Whatever you do well in the darkness tells more about who you are than what you do best in light. Watch out!

Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.

What other people think about me is not my business.

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar.

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.