They even want unelected panels of bureaucrats to decide who gets what life-saving medical care and who is just too old or it's too expensive to be worth saving.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Michael Pollan

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

Iris Dement

The bird let loose in Eastern skies,Returning fondly home,Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor fliesWhere idle warblers roam;But high she shoots through air and light,Above all low delay,Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,Nor shadow dims her way.

Thomas Moore, Oh That I had Wing

To know is to control.

Scott Reed

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Neil Gaiman

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Margaret Mitchell

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

Heston Blumenthal

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

LouisFerdinand Celine

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Jodi Picoult

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Proverb

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Bertrand Russell