The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in --telephonic, technological and relational --to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Henry Miller

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

Vivien Leigh

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. Peter 3:15

Bible

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

George Carlin

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

James Fenton

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Richard Harding Davis

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

Vanessa Paradis

We're on a mission from God.

Elwood

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

J.M. Barrie

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward