The environment is everything that isn't me.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

I believe in religion that teaches freedom, equality and brotherhood

The best way to deal with an argument is to avoid entering into one.

Change in all things is sweet.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.