If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

We are God’s holy temple. The Spirit dwells in us.

Buying a book is not enough... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!

Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.