Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change.. view

By: John Astin

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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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The medium is the message... view

By: Marshall McLuhan

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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing... view

By: Will Rogers

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I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years... view

By: Darrell Royal

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The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school... view

By: Abbe Pierre

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So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years... view

By: Gordon Brown

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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work... view

By: W. Edwards Deming

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My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover... view

By: Tom Glazer

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I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do... view

By: Kitty Carlisle

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages... view

By: Tom Stoppard

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