Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.

There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

To memorize something,it's best to write it down.

Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.