It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

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.

He didn't know which he preferred: the Red, with its fatalistic and pious acceptance of all futures, or the Misery, acknowledging that the more you attracted notice, the worse God dealt with you.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

I want to make sure I'm fly. Nothing too baggy, something that fits right. I just like that feeling when you go out in public and everyone's like "Wow, that's an awesome outfit."

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

Our children are the gift we give the world we'll never see.

Russia and Iran are not going to allow the Assad regime to fall.

I now know that experience comes to us for a purpose, and if we follow the guidance of the spirit within us, we will probably find that the purpose is a good one.

There's little comfort in the wise

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.