I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Safeguard the health of both body and soul.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

No great saint lived without errors.

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.