Why is it that the people who seem to have the most to say aren’t doing anything at all?

May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.

There is a stereotype that vegans talk about being vegan all the time. The irony is, once people find out I’m vegan, I quickly become their confessor, counselor, and sounding board.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

The last kiss is given to the void.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.