If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.

Their heartbeats rushed through his body. His arms circled around her, just so he could keep himself from falling.

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants.

The scouts [in "Moneyball"] could lend an authenticity that's even beyond what we had on the page.

Mortals, while through the world you go, Hope may succor and faith befriend, Yet happy your hearts if you can but know, Love awaits at the journey's end!

I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

There's so many people that dislike you all the time, so when somebody loves anything that you do, you go 'Yes! Finally!' Even if it means the dyn-o-mite thing.

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.