We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

Thomas Jefferson

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Michel de Montaigne

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Charles Kingsley

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

Berkeley Breathed

I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.

Tyra Banks

A good teacher is a determined person.

Gilbert Highet

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Charles Baudelaire

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

T. S. Eliot

Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.

Edward O. Wilson

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

John Updike

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Mike Yaconelli