In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.

The essence of being human is being creative.

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

The next frontier is our own selves.

His leap was exact, mathematical. The initial arc - head tucked between taut arms that spread out gradually like wings - was as graceful as a swan dive.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

Along with bathing and eating your veggies, releasing emotions needs to become part of our daily routines.

My #1 goal is to make videos that I'd want to watch.

Can we rename [Taylor Swift] Pinocchio Swift?

I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.

People listen to the beat first. So if that doesn't draw people in especially with the audience I cater to, they're definitely about that production.