He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

Truth by definition excludes.

Ravi Zacharias

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Sydney Smith

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

Jane Goodall

Civility costs nothing.

Proverb

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action

Aristotle

I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.

Glenn Danzig

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

Richard Russo

Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.

Alexandre Dumas

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Jimmy Carter

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

John Dewey

We are all star stuff.

Carl Sagan

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Jack Prelutsky