I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.