We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

You’ve never had someone you love snatched, ” I shot back, annoyed by her ignorance. “Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can.

Each person in your life is a teacher, each experience in your life is a lesson. Living is like looking into a mirror, every teacher is you.

We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century.

I've been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what's written and produced in the Arab world and I don't much like it.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.

I'm not a spiteful man, never been. I always forgive. The final decision isn't mine, but God's. God knows what He does.

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?