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

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.

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

I find that in preparation for a drama you can do a lot of character work and develop the character and know what you want to achieve and project throughout the course of the film.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life and God shows up in it, and then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what is more important to you - the dream or him.

That a new humanity will be brought forth from this Christ consciousness in each person.