I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

We only truly understand what we experience.

...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.

How you talk to yourself, in your head, determines how you feel about yourself, and determines the actions you take.

Architecture aims at Eternity

Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.