The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

The words of men cannot be trusted, especially men like you!

When we connect with ourselves in love we can connect with others and the planet in love.

The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

By not coming forward, you make yourself a victim forever.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it."

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.