Patience was not something that came naturally to me but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Everyone is given one gift a reason for being and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

It's human nature to be curious about people and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively from a distance and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world and at myself from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature there's something wrong with you.

Nature is something outside our body but the mind is within us.

I mean you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment we cannot monitor or define it and yet it's there.

I did not want to be a tree a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body we as audience must see ourselves not the imitated behavior of everyday actions not the phenomenon of nature not exotic creatures from another planet but something of the miracle that is a human being.

When I was growing up Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

There's something in human nature the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present I'm going to make something out of it.

Caught up in life you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist in my opinion is a monstrosity something outside of nature.

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite hard and resistant.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity love brotherhood and relationships that I never understood and probably never would have. So from that standpoint there is some truth and good in everything.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over the wound is closed and healed done with.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but at the same time want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

In nature we never see anything isolated but everything in connection with something else which is before it beside it under it and over it.

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.