"Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now."

"The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism."

"Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't."

"There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals."

"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"Most people associate command and control leadership with the military."

"It is a quiet truth that a leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."