“The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.”

The sea is the universal sewer.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.

People protect what they love.

we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.

Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

The only way to earn what you’re really worth is to get paid based on your results.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.

The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success ‘permanently’ is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.