We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

Rudolf Otto

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Anthony Jay

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

George Orwell

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

Serge Haroche

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

William Hazlitt

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

Amanda Burton

The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.

Mike Weir

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Mark Twain

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, to succeed is a natural consequence of Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards