When we focus our attention on things that are either in the past of in the future, it dilutes our experience of right now. Today is the day you can break from that.

Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?

Cassandra Clare

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Elizabeth C. Dunn

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

Lewis Mumford

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

Scott Brown

A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.

Prabal Gurung

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

Henry David Thoreau

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

Bashar al-Assad

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

G. K. Chesterton

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Andre Breton

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

Killing is the payoff of war.

Morley Safer