Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

Success is when everything that goes wrong, fits in your plan.

If you are strong enough to face Fear of Failure, Fear of Rejections, and Fear of Criticism, that's the sign of Success.

Stay committed to staying focused and take action that is in line with what you want.

God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise