In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.

The essence of being human is being creative.

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

The next frontier is our own selves.

It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast.

She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end.

I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

It's been a long time since I felt something like hope. Don't ask me to give it up for Netflix and a Prius.

From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.

Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?

There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in a woman's body, which most people consider the strong woman character.

They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.

I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.

The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.