Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

You couldn't speak to fear, couldn't tell it the truth: Fear lived in your bones.

[I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.

People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.

I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.

There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

I didn't think we'd get to this point that we're at now, but I was ready to lead If we got to this point.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.