Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

I've found that eating vegan the last five or six months has really given me energy, I feel good and I look fabulous.

There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

We only have ten years to save the oceans

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.

I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing.

My parents lie somewhere beneath the snow, buried with my mortal life.

It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

Digital media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves.

It seems to me that a 9/11-style attack is impractical.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.