"Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job."

“It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!”

“The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.”

“Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.”

“My life started being awesome five years ago.”

Source : "Connie Britton Is a Late Bloomer" by Susan Dominus, www.nytimes.com. February 13, 2013.

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”

Source : Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

“I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training; over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off.”

“We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.”

“Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.”