Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units, ' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

Life’s best lessons are learned during the most painful experiences.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

What I am to be, I am now becoming.

Hillary Clinton is raising your taxes and I'm lowering your taxes. That in itself is a big difference.

I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me.

Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble!

The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.

I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

Nothing makes sense, why should I?