Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.

Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Ambrose Bierce

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

William Shakespeare

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitzer

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.

Todd Akin

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.

Leonard Cohen

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

Orison Swett Marden

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betaken i. e. , committed to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

Sir Edward Coke

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Doug Coupland

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Lao Tzu

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

Kurt Vonnegut

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

Hjalmar Schacht