I don’t know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.

A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat.

Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.

All we have in love are two unprotected hearts in an open field. And that’s why our hearts bleed so much when we get hurt.

Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.