Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Inventors make something out of anything, but God makes something out of nothing. Elohim needs no raw materials.

Music. It’s not about those things. It’s about a feeling. It’s about expressing yourself. It’s about letting go.

Obviously [Can't Hardly Wait] wasn't in American Pie, which was a movie about some teenage boys.

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain

Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.

I'm not a movie star and I know that.

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

It kind of limits what we can call the albums.