People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Believers are each other's mirrors.

Shy people are my favorites. The unmistakable glint of shyness in someone's eyes can mesmerize me for years!

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

There are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in the USA on a daily basis.

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.

Sincere composers believe in God.

As I grow older, I constantly learn more.

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.