Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Orson Welles

The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

Freeman John Dyson

He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.

Ellen Schreiber

I have a map of the United States...actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. I also have a full size map of the world. I hardly ever unroll it.

Steven Wright

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Sigmund Freud

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Mark Twain

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Jessamyn West

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

Malcolm Wallop

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

William Shakespeare

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Francis Bacon

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

J.K. Rowling