Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

It's very difficult to stay in one's heart as it keeps beating

Colors are vibrating light energies, each “color ray” produces a sound that affects matter.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened.

The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.

Influence is providing attention and value to others.

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

I always liked records that didn't explain themselves too well - ones that you had to listen a few times.