Something is monitoring the planet. And they are monitoring it very cautiously.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Decisions always refer to the future.

We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

When you need a friend, you can always count on your teammates.

Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?

There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.