I wholeheartedly encourage any steps in the right direction, in whatever time frame works for the person on the path.

Remember that veganism is a compassionate lifestyle not a punitive religion. Enjoy it! And if the going gets rough, it's better to relax the rules occasionally than to give up the game entirely.

I am all too human, I don't always do the right thing, so how can I expect others to perform perfectly on the issues that are my top priority?

Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can.

I try to meet people where they are.

Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.

Mostly, I make sure to stay keenly aware of my own shortcomings so that I am more patient with others.

Giving into anger destroys the soul.

Come for the body, stay for the soul.

Once people learn, it is hard to forget and go back.

Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder.

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child

Revenge is an inhuman word.

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.