We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.