They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

It's very difficult to follow our dreams, but it's even more difficult to forget them.

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

There is always something missing that torments me.

If not me- who?, If not now- when?

Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions.