It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

Bertrand Russell

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

Howard Warren Buffett

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

Rita Rudner

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Igor Stravinsky

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

Ivan Turgenev

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

Mordecai Richler

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

Haley Joel Osment

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Cecelia Ahern

Action expresses priorities.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Zane Grey