Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.

Animals do not ‘give’ their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.

A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.

In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It’s hard to say you need to be forgiven.

You don't have to be like most people around you, because most people never become truly rich and wealthy.

When stupidity of today joins with the stupidity of yesterday it becomes a myth

I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

The goal of teaching is learning, not teaching.

I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.