All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

There is always the need to carry on.

There are no other Everglades in the world.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

The trick is to learn from your mistakes, and have the courage to be true to your heart.

Life is worth living with fearless heart.

Let's be incomplete together.

There are no silver bullets.

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.