He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.

Lemony Snicket

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

Samuel Wilson

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

Steve Wozniak

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

Confucius

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

Gayle King

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

G.K. Chesterton

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

Jeffrey Kluger

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

W. Winwood Reade

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

Voltaire

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

George Bernard Shaw