The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Pierre Corneille

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Johann von Goethe

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

Tom Vilsack

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery.

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For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

Brian Mulroney

I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

Patrice O'Neal

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

Grover Cleveland

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It's the seed of life we carry about with us like our skeletons, each one of us unconsciously pregnant with desirable villa residences. There's no escape. As individuals we simply do not exist. We are just potential home builders, beavers, and ants. How do we come into being? What is birth?

Evelyn Waugh

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Marcus Antonius

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Henry David Thoreau