Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Michael Pollan

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.

Amanda Seyfried

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.

Sir Winston Churchill

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

James Wolcott

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Jodi Picoult

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Stephen Jay Gould

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Ray Bradbury

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

Edward Hoagland

Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact.

Samantha Young

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Voltaire

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Walt Whitman

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer