"For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together."

“You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.”

Source : Christopher Hampton (1997). “Plays: Total eclipse [u.a.] - 1. publ”

“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”

“Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.”

“I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.”

“Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]”

“Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered”

“I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.”

Source : "Amy Poehler Talks to Rachel Dratch About Her Memoir". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.thedailybeast.com. March 26, 2012.

“It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future.”