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

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

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.

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

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.

I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.

Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

If the party of Lincoln wishes to become the party of intolerance, selecting Trump to be its presidential candidate is a good way forward.

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin seeping spreading and affecting more than the original need.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not galloping past your window on the way to the latest anything. They're living their lives. You do a play, they come and see it and say, 'That's nice', and then they go home.

Obamacare is making people divorce so they can afford it. And divorce hurts women and the children, and that is Obamacare and their War on Women.

There’s a future version of you who’s proud you were strong enough.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy and satisfied. It's your job to make your marriage happy and satisfying.

I love making smoothies post-workout. My favorite - depending on the day - is either a chocolate whey protein shake with banana and peanut butter, or one with vanilla and berries.