Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.

On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They're designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.

The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.