The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Henry David Thoreau

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

Eric Liu

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'

Scott Walker

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Stephen King

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

William James

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

Christopher Hitchens

A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Alexander Pope

The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and Family

Michael Vance

If a cat spoke, it would say things like Hey, I don't see the problem here.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Stendhal