"An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure."

“If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history -- a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils -- people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. '”

“It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.”

“I can testify that it is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely.”

“I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.”

“I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.”

“Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.”

Source : "The Perils Of Overfishing, Part 2". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2009.

“I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.”

“Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.”

Source : Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”