When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other's respect simply because we've survived all we have and kept going anyway.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it.

Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.

As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruck

Why do bad things happen to good people?''Because it makes a good story.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.

George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.

A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.

[Donald] Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders].