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

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.

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 see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.

Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.