Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

Over the inter glaciers, I see the summer glow, And, through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.

Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate.Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her dear dog a bone.Though the cupboard was bare, When she focused elsewhereHer heart overflowed with fun!

The rate of delay is in direct proportion to the urgency of arrival.

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

If you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family