You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.

Animals do not ‘give’ their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.

In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.