I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

I can't feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can't feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

We all have bad days, but one thing is true; no cloud is so dark that the sun can't shine through.

I must have been a koala in my past life.

Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.

Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!

We all have wings, but it is up to each one of us to have the courage to fly

Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices.

Amethyst is a meditative and calming stone that works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.