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.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Everyone is given one gift a reason for being and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

It's human nature to be curious about people and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively from a distance and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world and at myself from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature there's something wrong with you.

Nature is something outside our body but the mind is within us.

I mean you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.