Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Michael J. Fox

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

George C. Marshall

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King Jr.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Alphonse de Lamartine

A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

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If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.

Ian Mcewan

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

Jean Claude Van Damme

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Audre Lorde

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Frederick Douglass

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Edward de Bono

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

Albert Einstein