Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Paul Ryan

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Alexander Pope

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

Taylor Lautner

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Alice Walker

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Thomas Merton

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

P. J. O'Rourke

That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.

William Shakespeare

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else

Thomas Jefferson

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

Faye Wattleton.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

Jan de Bont