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

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.

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.

Forgive. It doesn’t erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment.

Nixon knew exactly what he wanted to accomplish in his four interviews with David Frost, quite apart from having his agent Irving Paul Lazar negotiate a terrific deal for him, with cash up front.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

I am present in every moment.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness fulfillment success and inner peace start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results.

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.

Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances.