I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.

I've many reasons why I believe that every individual I meet is a greatness material

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

The era of a Palestinian state is over.

I mean you're so shy & I'm lovin your tie You're like slicker than the guy with the thing on his eye