It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

My point is, I don't see the need to eat animals. I love animals; besides the horrible stuff that's put in meat, I actually love cuddling with animals and petting them and stuff.

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.

I create something that means something to me, to the world, and try to do my best. I can't fix everything.

I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.