Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Roger McGuinn

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

Rainer Maria Rilke

And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stolen out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Ingmar Bergman

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Daniel Nathans

Life is beautifully tragic. Giving it up isn't the hard part; it's the living part that everyone struggles with.

Allison Blanchard

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Frances Conroy

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

Charles Baudelaire

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'