When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

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.

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

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.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

Avoid a wasteful life and make each unit of time count

But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.

People meet when they need to meet.

Material possessions do not last, but memories last forever.

I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.

At once i knew i was not magnificent.

Art is for everybody.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.