Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.

We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.

Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN.

Not everyone can see things the way you see it, so let go. You can't see everything the way they see it either, so let go again.

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.

Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others.

If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible.

You are your dreams. Your dreams are what you can become, so don't stop dreaming and believing. Just Do It!

Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve.

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.

Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

To seem natural rather than to be natural.

Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.