Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.

The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian.

I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

I think, when God told Moses, "Thou shall not kill," I think God meant, "Thou shall not kill." And within the next one hundred years, we will see that God was right.

I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

Everything I do is to support my passion, and that is the rescuing of animals!

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!

Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the negatives - and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world.

No", she said, "I know that you don't like me.""You don't know anything.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.

I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.

Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.