I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Olin Miller

Even if it's a lie, even if it's a dream, please turn to me.

Koushun Takami

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

Jon Meacham

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Bobby Jones

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

English Proverb

Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.

Dan Rather

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven.

Graham D. Leonard

I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Robert Hughes

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Arnold Glasgow