Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

Myth is someone else's religion.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

Everyone has a life purpose, and the key to your life purpose is following your passion, which consumes a lot of time.

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.