Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Wendell Berry

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Nicholas Boileau

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

John Drinkwater

When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

Lara Stone

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

But for me, being naked out of doors and in the water is one of the best ways I have ever found to restore my sense of blissful innocence. It takes me back to that place of my almost forgotten childhood, where I got to run around undressed without anyone telling me I had to cover up or be embarrassed.

Elizabeth Rosner, Notes on NudeB

Read my lips: no new taxes.

George Bush

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Miguel de Cervantes

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Les Brown

This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.

Robert Mitchum

Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.

Malcolm Muggeridge