We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The beginning is the half of every action.

Proverb

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Michel De SaintPierre

When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Anne Baxter

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.

Denis Donoghue

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

Kathryn Bigelow

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

Pandora Poikilos

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Louis Kronenberger

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

G. K. Chesterton