More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.

The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.

People should treat the oceans like we do anything else that we care about - with consideration, with care, and affection. That's it. For that we must educate.

Fresh water is like a fossil fuel; we should not waste it.

What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well.

We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations.

It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.

We must have the hope to be able to succeed.

We still have hope; it is what keeps us going.

We have to have more consideration for people who have lesser means than we do. It is a problem of survival.

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.

I was a terrible English student.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur.

You don't realize all the things you have in this world, much more than you need, and you do much less than you can.