Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try to look after our fellow creatures, and evil for us to do otherwise.

GMOs could really land us in trouble

Acquiring new knowledge has been crucial for survival over the millennia.

If you love someone, be their everything.

We're going to be eternally optimistic that the Senate is going to get their work done.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then you all have to leave.

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.

With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.