Touring is one of my favorite things about what I get to do.

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.

Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully.

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker. - The World And The Door

The person with an itch can't understand why everyone isn't scratching.

Sometimes money is the only thing that people have and they feel threatened when they think they are losing it.

If I've learned anything through all of this, it's that each and every day is a canvas waiting to be painted - an opportunity for love, for fun, for living, for learning.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.

Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.