Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Peter Medawar

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Pearl Bailey

The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt.

Jarod Kintz

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

Dwight L. Moody

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

Gabrielle Union

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Francis Bacon

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

Robin Wright Penn

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

William James

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Albert Camus

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Eleanor Robson Belmont, The Fabr

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Mark Twain