Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me with her compassion patience and understanding.

Tolerance compromise understanding acceptance patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Give your dog or cat respect patience understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature rather than being the lords over nature.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.