My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

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.

The world is a forgotten place.

You have more power than you know, Samantha. You just have to be brave enough to realize it.

Don't stare out the window

The worst thing that can happen to us is that our wings melt and we fall into the sea.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.

Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.