For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

James Hansen

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

Source Unknown

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

Genevieve Gorder

Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.

Nick Clegg

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.

Anon.

Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.

Alexander Brome

Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

Victor Hugo

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Erica Jong

Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.

Elizabeth Hurley

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates

Samuel Johnson

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

Jonathan Kozol