Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.