If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third...

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

Everyone should dance more. Everyone should walk more.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.