Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Joseph Conrad

What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.

Abraham Lincoln

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Andrew Jackson

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Henry L. Doherty

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Edith Cavell

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Richard Bach

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

James Hillman

Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.

Werner Heisenberg

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Sir John Lubbock

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)