Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

No matter how you were born, no matter how you identify, I want to be clear that I would be proud to grind you up and eat you.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.