You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.

Believe that change can happen, even after overwhelming evidence says things never seem to get better.

One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.

If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.

When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.

Humans do have authority over creation—but it is a delegated authority to care for animals as God would and not to destroy them. All life still belongs to the Creator of life, as it did the in the beginning.