Fish are complex beings who choose mates, use words to communicate, build nests, cooperate with one another to find food, have long-term memories, and use tools.

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.

At eighty things do not occur

The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.

Stories. They're everywhere...You never know where they start and you certainly don't know where they'll end. If they ever DO end. (Nevermore)

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.