I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

Dave Reichert

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

E. Y. Harburg

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

Dejan Stojanovic

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Adam Clayton Powell

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

Harry Reasoner

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Ken Blanchard

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Bobby Hull

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

Diane Ackerman, A Natural Histor

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Benjamin Franklin