A person like me... isn't even worth the tip of a toe. I can't even compare to half.

To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

It's just fun to go out and compete. It doesn't matter what your record is or what the other team's record is. You're playing in an NFL game, and you are out there competing with great players.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.