Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.

The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.

I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.

Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.

The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.

Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better