"Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years."

“Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.”

Source : "How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Revisited". The WashingtonPost Online Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 23, 2006.

“the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.”

“We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.”

Source : "The Mannings On Fatherhood". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

“I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.”

“Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.”

Source : "Horst P Horst photography retrospective to open at V&A museum" by Hannah Marriott, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2014.

“Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him.”

Source : Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.79

“I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.”

“As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.160, A&C Black