The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.

The essence of being human is being creative.

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

The next frontier is our own selves.

I am lost to him. I never want to be found.

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.

The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.