"I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations."

“Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.”

Source : Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.83, Trafford Publishing

“One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”

“Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.”

“I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.”

“I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”

“I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.”

Source : "Maggie Q Interview NIKITA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2010.

“It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who saw the prodigal son while he was at a distance, and had compassion and ran and embraced him.”

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”