Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.

I'm a very, very conservative driver.

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.

I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.