When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

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.

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.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

it is not what happens to you, it is what happens in you.

Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.

A confused and weak man hides his weakness and uncertainty with fiery speeches.

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.

Mistakes only cost you when you don't acknowledge them.

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.