Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it,
and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
:: George Eliot

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled.
Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
:: Boris Pasternak

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
:: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
:: Margaret Walker

I find television very educational.
Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
:: Groucho Marx

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life
when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
:: Fran Lebowitz

Ever consider what dogs must think of us?
I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with
the most amazing haul—chicken, pork, half a cow.
They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
:: Anne Tyler

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
:: Plato

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well.
We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.
:: George Allen

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies,
for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
:: Diogenes

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter
George W. Bush, joking with fellow world leaders at his final Group of Eight summit,
where he agreed to consider a 50-per-cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050.
After making the remark, he reportedly punched the air and grinned widely.