Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.

Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

I just like the joyous aspect of playing comedy.

All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.

You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

We need nature more than nature needs us.