Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Love, then, hath every bliss in store; 'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more. Each other every wish they give; Not to know love is not to live.

John Gay

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

Ernie Harwell

The world is dyed with the color of blood. It will never be able to go back to the way it was before.

Matsuri Hino

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.http://www.rwe.org/works/Essays-2nd_Series_2_Experience.htm

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Experience

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

Wilbur Smith

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Charles Chaplin

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Samuel Johnson

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

Eliot Spitzer

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

Jeff Goodell

Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.

William Golding

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

Olive Schreiner

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson