Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

There is always the need to carry on.

There are no other Everglades in the world.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.

Angels surround us all the time.

We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.

I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.