Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.

How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?

Once a vegan, we are always so, because our motivation is not personal and self-oriented, but is based on concern for others and on our undeniable interconnectedness with other living beings.

Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.

Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that see. Something goes from the eye to the soul without going through the brain.

I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind.

Lord, we lift up your name. With hearts full of praise; Be exalted, O Lord my God! Hosanna in the highest!

I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.

You can't put out projects that you don't use yourself.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.

Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.

I love my body. It's what God gave me!

I’m a journalist; I run to the fire, that’s what we do.

Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.