What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it is a valuable asset if you are poor or have not any sense

Kin Hubbard

Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.

Kay Goodstadt

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

Valerie Jarrett

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

Eric Hoffer, The True Believer,

No other thing or no other person is going to make me happy in life, I just have to do that myself.

Greg Page

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

Josh McDowell

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

Jack Dee

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Simone Weil

When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

Dan Snow

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.

Thomas Moore

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

Graham Swift

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

John Michael Higgins