We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

As we used to say in the mountains, “Breathe. Breathe again. With every breath, you are alive.” After all these years, this still the best advice I can give you: Savor your existence. Live every...

Your fear ain’t nothin but gum on the bottom of your shoe. The residue from some past experience is all it is. You can scrape the gum off or it can serve as a reminder...

On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest...

Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not know where I was or what I was doing except that I was...

Despite all their flaws, zoos wake us up. They invite us to step outside our most basic assumptions. Offered for our contemplation, the animals remind us of nature’s impossibly varied schemes for survival, all the...

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

We went from, literally, survival mode to where we are today in four years. While I can’t articulate to you how dramatic a change that is suffice it to say it’s huge.