Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.

We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.

Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help.

Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want and we end up with what we’re supposed to have.

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

You can’t love anything properly from a distance.

The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

I think thats what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.

If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God.