Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Walter Wriston

The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.

William Cowper

Nothing in predictive climate science is more certain than the extinction of many of the world's mountain-dwelling species.

Tim Flannery

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

Harold Ross

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Cardinal De Richelieu

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

William S. Burroughs

The games we play are lessons we learn. He assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Terry Pratchett

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Thomas Hughes

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

Kinky Friedman

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Henry Miller