I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral; they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.

JeanAnthelme BrillatSavarin

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Proverb

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Johannes Kepler

You die in the middle of your life.

John Green

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

White, E.B.

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

Samuel Rutherford

May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.

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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Atât de mare e puterea adev?rului care, precum binele, se r?spânde?te de la sine.

Umberto Eco

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

Ted Kulongoski