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

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.

Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.