Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.

To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.

In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan -- a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.

These things hath Fate brought to pass, and we be but Fate's whipping-tops bandied what way she will.

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.

May the Heart of Jesus Christ be our school! Let us make our abode there. Let us study its movements and attempt to conform ours to them. Yes, O Divine Jesus, I want to live there.

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.