The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

Meister Eckhart

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

Brigitte Boisselier

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

Alexis Bledel

When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, youhave plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.

Jodi Picoult

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Mark Twain

Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Gerhard Kocher

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

Charley Pride

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas More

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

George Eliot

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

Tim Pawlenty

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Maxine Hong Kingston