Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

Down they went, into the darkness. Down ancient, worn steps coated in slippery mildew. Down into the deep recesses of the earth, far beneath the corridors of Deep-Spire.

To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

Nothing of value comes without being earned.