North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is.

When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.