It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

Faith has power in it. More often than not, faith can create miracles.

No answer to prayer is an indication of our merit every answer to prayer is an indication of God's mercy.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

Risk models only have value if they are used effectively in combination with a limit management and control process.

England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.