For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

Jeff Goodell

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

Rafael Palmeiro

Noble fathers have noble children.

Euripides

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Joseph Chamberlain

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Don Miguel Ruiz

This great maxim of Philosophy he had gathered by the teaching of nature alone: That man was created to work, not to speculate, or feel, or dream.

Thomas Carlyle

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.

Tim Vine

There is no try. There is only do.

John Green

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer -- but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

Scott Reed

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

Walter Lippmann

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Samuel Butler