The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Love has no monetary value, but life has no value without love.

Change provides us with experiences that we convert to personal power.

Whats fun about being an actress is you change all the time.

If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

I'm less interested in what people think think and more interested in how they came to think it and how they maintain it as valid.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.