Industrial food makers don't want you thinking about where your food comes from and what's in it.
We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return back again, and be content if the greater part of what thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and love this to which thou returnest
Good is done by degrees.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people