What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Run to the rescue with love/and peace will follow

I’ve learned that if you can’t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that’s where you can truly make an immediate difference.

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

In simplicity there is truth.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

Can still windmills, still produce wind? Can a heart still love, when a heart no longer is?

With courage of adventure, you can overcome the culture shock in a visit to a new country.

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

I think I had to see how bad it could really be to want to live again.