"The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy conservation: use less, because most of what we're consuming is from fossilized carbon!"

“You can only be your best self. When I initially got on the air, I would look around me and watch people that I thought were really good and try to be like they were. And I got to a point where I realized, "I can't be them." I can only be the best that Abby can be. And as long as I'm myself and I'm genuine and I'm real, then I think that's all you can do.”

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“You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.”

Source : "Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles". Book by Osvald Sirén, Volume 2, p. 14, 1974.

“I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.”

“It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.”

“Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.”

Source : William John Locke (1903). “Where Love is: A Novel”

“It’s only human to have low moments in life because if you don’t, then you won’t feel the high, exciting times.”

“In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.”

“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”