It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

George Eliot

People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Michio Watanabe

The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

Tom Brown, Jr.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Natalie Goldberg

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Adlai Stevenson

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

Dan Stevens

The demons of despair will always try to hold you back from enjoying your life. Either they will try to haunt you with your failures of your past or torment you with your worries of the future. Refuse to entertain them by rising above and staying in the present. They can't have any power over you...if you don't allow them to!

Timothy Pina

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Bobby Vinton

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

Uma Thurman

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Edward de Bono

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Victor Cherbuliez