"I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world for themselves - while Liberals just seem to want a better world."

“If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.”

“I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.”

“[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!”

“... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.”

“As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.”

Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter

“Ye have no need to fight, stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord.”

“Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.42, Counterpoint Press

“Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.”