While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve.

At the age of my play this country gave me a stone on my head.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

The three roles that I have always admired are Valjean, Phantom and Jesus and I've enjoyed them all so much.

There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.

And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms