What makes your heart leap?

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Outer beauty is transient, but the beauty of the soul is everlasting.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.

We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.