The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!

So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back!

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s the trick.

I don't put cream in any pasta noodles ever. I would use a little butter, but I don't ever use cream.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.