We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

Your children are perfume of your love.

Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems.

Whatever is-is best.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."