“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.”

“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”

“Our wisdom comes from our experience,and our experience comes from our foolishness.”

“Here is the major life question: Does our experience create our identity ... or does our identity create our experience?”

“All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees very far back or study for long what life was like for our forbears to uncover humanity's abusiveness. The inherited scars of our multigenerational families exist in our family systems as we know them today. The abuse of the past often exists as the shame of today, and the shame is perpetuated through our patterns of interaction.”

“More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people".”

“Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.”