"If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures."

“The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that.”

Source : "AirAsia flight QZ8501: families receive brutal confirmation of lost plane's fate" by Peter Walker, Jonathan Kaiman, Paul Farrell and Michael Safi, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.

“An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.”

“The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.”

“I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.”

“No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.”

“Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to mistake a fancy for a fact. Geologists, in particular, have very frequently amused themselves in this way, and it is not a little amusing to follow them in their fancies and their waking dreams. Geology, indeed, in this view, may be called a romantic science.”

“The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.”

“When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.”