Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.

Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt.

He said: I don't like to read. And I said, honey, you haven't found the right girl.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.

All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.

I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.

You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

We need economic growth in Europe and we need to find a solution for the excessive interest rates that are making it difficult for many countries to get their own debt under control.