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When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it's scary what it does on a global scale. I'm very much caught between the two.

Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.

Sometimes I feel like a human pin cushion. Every painful emotion hits me with ridiculously exaggerated force. And the anxiety feels like hands inside of me, squeezing my guts really hard.

As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

It doesn't seem right for anybody to get so much attention.

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

Our - our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won't even give them offensive weapons.

The single most exciting thing that happened for me was getting to spend some time in the studio with both Marty Stuart and Vince Gill.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs.