The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

"That's done it!" said Sam. "Now I've rung the front-door bell!"

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

I have always believed that a single talented analyst, working very hard, can cover an amazing amount of investment landscape, and this belief remains unchallenged in my mind.

Attachment is the strongest block to realization.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

God's timing is always perfect. Trust His delays. He's got you.