There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Robert Benchley

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

Mortimer Adler

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind -- not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement -- but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

William E. Holler

When in doubt, choose to live.

Terry Pratchett

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

Andy Warhol

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Edward Young

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Herman Melville

I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.

Elizabeth Banks

When He talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamor of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

C.S. Lewis

I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.

Will Friedle

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Garrison Keillor