Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?

Once a vegan, we are always so, because our motivation is not personal and self-oriented, but is based on concern for others and on our undeniable interconnectedness with other living beings.

Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.

Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that see. Something goes from the eye to the soul without going through the brain.

I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind.

Lord, we lift up your name. With hearts full of praise; Be exalted, O Lord my God! Hosanna in the highest!

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

My concern is to help people find out how they could best live their lives to hit the mark almost every single time.

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

Faith never makes a confession.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen!

Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.