A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Ronald Reagan

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

Lisa Kirk

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

Wilder Penfield, 1921

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Francis Bacon

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Elbert Hubbard

The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.

Nina LaCour

Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

Rose Macaulay

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alan Alda

We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Robert Browning

Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained.

Woody Allen