Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.