How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Don't hate yourselves because you will regret in the future. Your souls may be valuable in society.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.

A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.