I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.

No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.

To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.

An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities.

You can't change yesterdays, but you can change tomorrows.

Everything revolves around the fork.

For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven's name are you waiting for?

If we're talking about healthcare lets talk about a healthy diet. If there is anything better in the world in dealing with a healthcare problem it's prevention! We CAN afford prevention!

No animals needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.

The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

I would be strongly committed to working with the FOMC to continue promoting a robust economic recovery ... I consider it imperative that we do what we can to promote a very strong recovery.

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]