Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.

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.

Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without.

Before your greatest victories, you will always fight your greatest battles. Stay in the Fight.

May my children follow their own intuition to discover true empowerment - in the answers they seek.

I appreciate the little things in life because it adds up to everything.

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.

These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.