"When I started out, I wanted to have everything solved by the time I was 30. That didn't happen. Instead, I realized that the journey is the destination, that the work."

“We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.”

“Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.”

Source : "Puck Goes Back to His (Ginger) Roots". Interview with Perry Garfinkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

“Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.”

“One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind.”

Source : Peter Russell (1997). “Something about poetry: selected lectures and essays by Peter Russell”

“Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.”

“You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?”

“My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.”

“If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing.”