A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I had to deal with in captivity.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.