Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Leighton Meester

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Jessamyn West

There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

Giada De Laurentiis

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

Oscar Wilde

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Thomas Carlyle

Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove.

Jodi Picoult

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Anthony Hope

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Garth Brooks

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

Neil Gaiman

I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her I want to be her again.

Berenice Bejo

We do not exist for ourselves...

Thomas Merton

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

G. K. Chesterton