Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

Why argue about things you can't prove?

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience.

Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.

Animals make us Human.