Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too ….

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government..

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead..

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever..

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently d….

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back.

None of us know our real names..

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness.

The invisible hand never picks up the check..

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us..

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening..

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation..

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us..

It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, ….

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream..

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you)..

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder.

The command to be free is a double bind.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again..

When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last….