It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Denis Diderot

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

H. L. Mencken

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Moseley Braun

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas Henry Huxley

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.

Tim Vine

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

August Strindberg

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Robert Frost

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

John Bacon

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

Terry Pratchett

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

Susan Sarandon

Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

Harry Browne

Un croquis vaut mieux qu???un long discours.Fr., A sketch is better than a long speech.

Friedrich Nietzsche