We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.

Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.

Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person.

There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.

People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!

The goat, for us, is an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from Iowa people are like 'Beware the horned goat of satan!' and all that. It's bullshit. It's just an animal.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.