You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!

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.

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

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!

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

Cop families have guns in their houses.

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence.

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.