The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.

There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people.

People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up

Rights and responsibilities are ... different sides of the same coin.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.

Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.