Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.

It's always a thrill to walk through a Broadway stage door.

Braves fans are one-of-a-kind. Your passion to win comes close to equaling that of the players that go out on the field each and every game. But when the team goes through rough patches, you're there to encourage and cheer and believe that things will turn around.

I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.

When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.

It's no use crying over spilt milk

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.

The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a dream.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.

I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.

I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.