My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.

I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury.

I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such an appreciation for beauty and kindness that it was inherent.

Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy.

It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand.

Spreading the word about real issues is still helping. Just being conscious of helping animals every day will help guide you to make beneficial decisions for animals.

With our ignorance, they win, we lose.

Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem just like that one thing you want.

I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.

It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.

Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair?

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.