Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.

Anger is a poison that affects our thoughts and creates a fire that burns our sweetness of heart.

Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.

Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.

Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he’s ready, no matter how young he is, and you can’t start too young to learn how to be careful.

I'm a very highly opinionated person, and so people assume I'm opining on everything; when I open my mouth and say something, it's an opinion.

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

Once I'm on my feet I realize escape might not be so easy.