Being a joyful vegan is the best way I know to contribute to the happiness of others, ultimately ensuring our own happiness.

All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.

We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

The way you treat others determines the way others treat you; the way others treat you determines the way you see yourself; the way you see yourself determines who you are.

We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don't like in the world, we must start by changing what we don't like about ourselves.

Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.

If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

Life is a series of delicious moments.

It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.

The important thing is that the worst is over, ... Now comes the reconstruction.