In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

There is no better high than discovery.

People would rather believe than know.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.

Little things that run the world.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball.

When you are single mom - don't be afraid to get out there and date, and have a little bit of fun. We're still women... we're still feminine... and we still have needs.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.