I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Horace

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

Yvon Chouinard

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

Madeleine L'Engle

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Scottish Proverb

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Sir Isaac Newton

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

Cynthia Nixon

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Stendhal

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

John Tillotson

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli