The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another.

We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons.

Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and classify it - a fly. And in that very cognitive exercise, part of the wonder is gone. Once we have labeled the things around us we do not bother to look at them so carefully. Words are part of our rational selves, and to abandon them for a while is to give freer reign to our intuitive selves.

Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.