If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money.

Feeling superior doesn't make one superior. Hubris does not humble others.

The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.

It only takes one cat – or person – to make another feel welcome and special.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.

There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.