The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.

Most people see what is, and never see what can be.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now.

Many times the wrong train took me to the right place.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable.