We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

Ian Mcewan

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Max Beerbohm

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

Jeremy Rifkin

Do you like me?No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven.

Anne Sexton

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

Ian MacKaye

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Clifford Stoll

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

Hermann Maier

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

John Green

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Merton Miller