For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

John C. Calhoun

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Calvin Coolidge

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

William E. Rothschild

Some want to live within the soundOf church or chapel bell;I want to run a rescue shop,Within a yard of hell.

C.T. Studd

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Ray Kroc

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

G.K. Chesterton

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

Rainn Wilson

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Kurt Vonnegut

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

Hassan Nasrallah

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Karen Armstrong

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

Robert Ballard