I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

Carlos Fuentes

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

Victoria Principal

Any yes given out of fear, shame, guilt, or insecurity should be a no.

Saundra Dalton-Smith

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Julius Caesar

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

Stephen King

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

John Donne

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz

It's the last inch that counts.

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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

John Dryden

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.

Horace

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.

Saint Augustine

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

G. K. Chesterton