No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.

Spirituality is conversation with God, everything else is just religious custom.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries.

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)

Ignorance is not a suitable defense

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.