The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.
Disappoint anyone… hell, disappoint everyone – but don’t ever disappoint yourself.
Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public. Ultimately, we respond to someone who's capable of doing heroic things but has issues or problems in their life that they can't seem to resolve. I believe audiences identify with that. All of us have those secrets and those things that we wish we could improve about ourselves. And when you have someone who's heroic and flawed, I think it makes us feel better about ourselves.
Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.
A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. . . Even the streams were now lifeless. . . No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
You have this kind of cross between abandonment and savior, and I think it's going to show that how a government as powerful as America is was able to drop the ball so badly, then maybe it can be used as a textbook in the future.