I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.

Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.

It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort. Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I'm proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.