"A dream needs a powerful push to move into manifestation. You give it that power by making your dream as clear as possible in your mind, turning it into specific goal or goals, putting the goals into a time line and knowing what the culmination of that dream looks like."

“Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be..”

“The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response”

Source : "Buying carbon credits cost-effective and necessary". www.irishtimes.com. December 14, 2006.

“By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.”

“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.”

“Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side. And they don't want to. If we don't kill them or release them, we have but one choice. Call them monsters and isolate them.... I’ve spoken to many predators over the years. They always exhibit amazement that we do not hunt them. And that when we capture them, we eventually let them go. Our attitude is a deliberate interference with Darwinism - an endangerment of our species.”

“It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Peace is never more than one thought away.”

“"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To endow research is merely to encourage the research for endowment; the true man of science will not be held back by poverty, and if science is of use to us, it will pay for itself." Such are but a few samples of the conflict of opinion which we find raging around us.”

Source : Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.