"Every moment is an experience."

“The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being.”

“Girls of all kinds can be beautiful; from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned”

“There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.”

“Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me.”

“The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to explain these societal challenges in some ways provided the fuel that led to the Occupy Movement a few years later. And, while Occupy was a somewhat transitory phenomenon, many of the activist groups that emerged during this period are still out there, and still working on reshaping the political debate around taxes, around welfare, around government assistance to the poor, around debt relief for students, and so on.”

“The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.”

“every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.”

“I get a lot of my inspiration from my family, but I never got to meet my dad's dad.”

Source : Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.