An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on around me. I try to think of the viewers' perspective too.