How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.

It's great that it's raining. But people should not assume that a little bit of rain is going to solve our problem.

He who has little problems, shows little love. He who has overcome huge problems, has giant love. Because he understands what it means and won’t have others suffer like he did.

Humor, motivations, moral, gods, energy, secrecy

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?

We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.

We are generally punished by where we have sinned.

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.