So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say Amen at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.

William Mountford

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

J.K. Rowling

When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange -- my youth.

Sara Teasdale

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Mahatma Gandhi

Courage: To step into a conversation with intention and without knowing how to get back out of it.

Dwight Frindt

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Jane Austen

If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

Harry Browne

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

Alan Dershowitz

Never say oops in the operating room.

Dr. Leo Troy

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Jock Sturges

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

P. J. Harvey