“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one
“If you want to know how to achieve optimal health, don’t ask a doctor. Ask someone who cured themselves of a disease or injury that doctors said was incurable.
“Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right.
“I always counsel people to ‘listen to everyone; follow no one’. We’re all an experiment of one, and I encourage people to try new things and find out what works for them.
“Every wild thing is in tune with its surroundings, awake to its fate and in absolute harmony with the planet. Their attention is focussed totally outwards. Humans, on the other hand, tend to focus introspectively on their own lives too often, brooding and magnifying problems that the animal kingdom would not waste a millisecond of energy upon. To most people, the magnificent order of the natural world where life and death actually mean something has become unrecognizable.