“Who are they, & who am I, that I should live, & they should die?”

“Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.”

“Animals are not ours to Eat.Animals are not ours to Wear.Animals are not ours to Experiment On.Animals are not ours to Use for Entertainment.Animals are not ours to Abuse in AnyWay.”

“Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.”

“I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin air. None of it remains. Why, therefore, am I hurting so much? Why did I bring back with me this nameless pain? I followed the path I set for myself, and I have forgiven. I do not want to be chained to hatred or resentment. I want to have the right to live in peace.”

“He who could hear my heart knew that I was crying out for help.”

“We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words--and own passages that speak to us. (p. 41)”