The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.

Albert Einstein

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Voltaire

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

Tyra Banks

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

Joel Osteen

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.

Henry David Thoreau

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

Elias Canetti

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

P. J. O'Rourke

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

Nancy Banks Smith

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

Oliver Goldsmith