I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

Terry Pratchett

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

Guy Fawkes

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

Thomas Morell

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Michael Novak

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Otto von Bismarck

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

Jane Austen

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Alice Koller

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.

Margaret J. Wheatley

It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.

William Devane

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Mary Baker Eddy

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Michael Caine

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

Anna Deavere Smith