Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

Love mercy, love kindness.

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

By her shining and her power he knew her.

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.