They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

That is what's meant by being afraid of the future, by showing how brilliant you come out of it.

The minute you see him, your hand will throb, your heart will pound out of your chest, and you won't be able to breathe.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

We were outplayed in every facet of the game

That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?