I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other's respect simply because we've survived all we have and kept going anyway.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it.

Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.

As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruck

Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.

Kindled the fire within you.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

It was a lot easier when we could just brand'em," Ben said. "Then everybody'd know not to mess with our womenfolk.

I'm not one to wallow, but I am one to feel the sting of a slap for a while, I think.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

The Savior knows what it's like to die of cancer.