"Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted."

“You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.104, Transaction Publishers

“In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.”

“Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.”

“There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.”

“I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is bestI'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.”

“I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.”

“Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be... The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole.”

“When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.”

Source : "Democratic U.S. Rep. Baldwin Joins Wisconsin Senate Race". www.foxnews.com. September 06, 2011.