History is a means of access to ourselves.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

It may be too late, if you wait until Christmas to show those who you love, you have loved them.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.

I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

Oklahoma is the cultural center of the universe.

When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.

It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.