Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Mediocrity is Death.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone best both for the body and the mind.

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

I'm just living my life and I’m being the best mother that I can and showing that on Teen Mom because that's what that show is about.

Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.

I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.