My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

We are no longer at the point of preventing climate disaster from happening entirely – we are now at the point of minimising the damage. And as these floods and storms are here, I think more and more people are going to be willing to stand up for themselves."

"Our planet is going to hit disaster if we don’t turn this ship around and so it’s basically like, there’s a scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult."

“But one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood.”

The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

"When a disaster is as big as at least Katrina, and you have this full-scale mobilization — food and water and ice and rescue efforts — I believe the proper entity at the federal level is the uniformed services to be in the lead of that,"

"Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security."

"When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble."

"It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn."

"Marriage is obsolete and a trap."

"The world is certainty a sudden place."

"Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality."

"Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer,"

"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."

"Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part."

"By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion."

"Comedy = tragedy + time."

"If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go"

"I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison."

"I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker."

You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time

No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.