Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

Man is not above nature, but in nature.

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.

Politics is applied biology.

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.

The cell never acts; it reacts.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Because we are all connected, we are meant to share our "story" with the world. It strengthens both the story teller and the listener.

You are nature. You are already perfect, peaceful, and powerful. You don’t need to become anything. You simply need to remember yourself.

Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.

I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies - my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like Fargo.

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.