Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.

We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.

Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event.