That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

Don't search dreams in the sky, they need strong footage on the earth.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Science has taken away our religion.

This day of your life will never come again.

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

I just get my news from the Internet.

I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.

There is power in words. What you say is what you get.