I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else. – Anthony Hopkins
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because theyre not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. – Eric Hobsbawm
[T]he bees will buzz you a welcome from the hives at the end, and then the trees will stoop down about you, and you can look up into a green sky set with constellations of apples. – Margaret Troili, “Woods of Mendocino,” Out West: A Magazine of the O
I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history. – Daisaku Ikeda