Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last 50 years than any other natural cataclysm.

As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years

It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them

When it comes to profit over safety, profit usually wins.

Even the poorest among us deserves the dignity of equality.

The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.

Time isn't just a quantity. It's information.

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

Have a colourful plate. I make a spinach salad with things like blueberries, apples and carrots.

In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.