"I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"It is a unyielding truth that where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food."

"I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights."

"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed."

"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."

"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."