I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

Harvey Cushing

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

William Shakespeare

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Bergen Evans

America is a willingness of the heart.

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Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.

David Sedaris

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Princess of Wales Diana

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

Sir Richard Steele

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

David Frum

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Oscar Wilde