Embora seja curta a vida que nos é dada pela natureza, é eterna a memória de uma vida bem empregada.

A natureza é o único livro que oferece um conteúdo valioso em todas as suas folhas.

O mundo tornou-se perigoso, porque os homens aprenderam a dominar a natureza antes de se dominarem a si mesmos.

Cada dia a natureza produz o suficiente para nossa carência. Se cada um tomasse o que lhe fosse necessário, não havia pobreza no mundo e ninguém morreria de fome.

A natureza nunca nos engana; somos sempre nós que nos enganamos.

Em todas as coisas da natureza existe algo de maravilhoso.

Só se pode vencer a natureza obedecendo-lhe.

A arte é um resumo da natureza feito pela imaginação.

Não devemos ter medo de inventar seja o que for. Tudo o que existe em nós existe também na natureza, pois fazemos parte dela.

Nunca a natureza é tão aviltada como quando a ignorância supersticiosa tem a arma do poder.

Adopte o ritmo da natureza. O segredo dela é a paciência.

O belo é uma manifestação de leis secretas da natureza, que, se não se revelassem a nós por meio do belo, permaneceriam eternamente ocultas.

A sabedoria da natureza é tal que não produz nada de supérfluo ou inútil.

O sonho e a esperança são dois calmantes que a natureza concede ao ser humano.

A natureza esconde seu segredo porque é sublime, não por astúcia.

Tudo o que nasce deve morrer, passando pela natureza em direção à eternidade.

A alegria de ver e entender é o mais perfeito dom da natureza.

A verdade literária nunca poderá ser a verdade da natureza.

A natureza concedeu aos grandes homens a faculdade de fazer e aos outros a de julgar.

Se uma planta não consegue viver de acordo com sua natureza, ela morre, assim também um homem.

Beyonce has very clear ideas - she knows exactly what she wants. The thing which she then also has over other celebrities is that she has an amazing voice. She's incredibly talented, and she's an amazing dancer - she's complete. Few are like Beyonce.

I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

I never liked group work in school.

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

I love being the favourite of every competition.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

I told jokes badly.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.