Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

In God we trust. All others must bring data.

W. Edwards Deming

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

Salman Rushdie

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

Billy Sherwood

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

Candace Cameron Bure

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Mary Catherine Bateson, A World

We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices, and private interests. By the help of these, artful men overpower their wisdom, and dupe its possessors; and if we may judge by the acts, arrets, and edicts, all the world over, for regulating commerce, an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

Benjamin Franklin

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

Betty White

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

Barry Commoner

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

David M. Heath

People usually are the happiest at home.

William Shakespeare

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

Ralph Nader