You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

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.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.