Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

The essence of being human is being creative.

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

The next frontier is our own selves.

Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim

It takes self-discipline and persistence action to achieve the goal.

People deceive themselves, or deceive each other, that is the origin of comedy.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

I want my life to be a hymn to the Creator.

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.

Every time you make a movie you have to confront your fears.