I do not give money for just mere hopes.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

Maurice Strong

For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

Rudyard Kipling

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

Source Unknown

For many are called, but few are chosen.

Bible, Matthew 22:14

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

Walter Lippmann

He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.

Proverb

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise

William Shakespeare

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

Seth Rogen

Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.

Stephen King

An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent -- a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion -- macho, sotto voce.

Phil Patton