In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

Pleasure is the Root of All Good

The ideal is the enemy of the real.

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.

We need an independent media to hold people like me to account.

I’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.

It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.