Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

Source Unknown

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

Ted Allen

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Anita Brookner

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Mark Strand

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

Edward W. Howe

We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

Robert E Sherwood

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.

Mary Wortley Montagu

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

Mark Twain

Love food and I love to eat.

Salma Hayek

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Napoleon Hill

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

Gerard Way