Remember that veganism is a compassionate lifestyle not a punitive religion. Enjoy it! And if the going gets rough, it's better to relax the rules occasionally than to give up the game entirely.

I am all too human, I don't always do the right thing, so how can I expect others to perform perfectly on the issues that are my top priority?

Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can.

I try to meet people where they are.

I wholeheartedly encourage any steps in the right direction, in whatever time frame works for the person on the path.

Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.

Mostly, I make sure to stay keenly aware of my own shortcomings so that I am more patient with others.

Giving into anger destroys the soul.

Come for the body, stay for the soul.

Once people learn, it is hard to forget and go back.

Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop them--for they are harming themselves as well as those who suffer from their actions.

In my father’s scheme of things, there were Italians and then there was the rest of the world.

Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.