I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

To dance is human, to polka is divine.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

Comfort leads to complacency, and complacency kills. For this reason, I believe that we all should be a little uncoomfortable in our jobs.

But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.

Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.

To live is to die. To die is to live. To avoid death, is to avoid living.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most.

Forest is the best port of the wise man!

Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.