We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.

You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices.

A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out.

I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.