You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.

Sherwood Boehlert

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not.

Michael Robotham

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Edward Gibbon

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

G. K. Chesterton

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Winston Churchill

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Xun Zi

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

Robert Atkins

My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

Bill Scott

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction

Virginia Woolf

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei