The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Atwood H. Townsend

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Meister Eckhart

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

Zoe Saldana

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

Patty Duke

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Aphra Behn

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.

Thomas More

History is the distillation of rumor.

Thomas Carlyle

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

Rick Springfield

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

Anna Held

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

Sam Shepard

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato