My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.

Carlos Ghosn

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

Dan Savage

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.

Joseph Fort Newton

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Sparky Anderson

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

Kelly Gallagher

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Ayn Rand

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Arthur Koestler

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Frank Robinson, attributed

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or highroad to the soul's destination.

Joseph Campbell

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Alexis Carrel

All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!

Mehmet Murat ildan