Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

There is always the need to carry on.

There are no other Everglades in the world.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

Never trust a mirror, ' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

The Bible is not a tested hypothesis, it is not a theory but it is God's Breath.

The thing about Donald [Trump] is the jokes write themselves. I don't even think of it to be trolling. What he says is the joke.

I am a documentarian of what I do.

You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Your spiritual family is even more important than our physical family because it will last forever.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

I remember our conversations [with Zachary Quinto] always being frustrated that we weren't doing what we wanted to do, but also filled with the determination that we were going to overcome that.