The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years

Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last 50 years than any other natural cataclysm.

As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.

Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.

Be careful of who becomes your friend and why. The person who will bite off your lips one day will have to first promise you a kiss today. Be careful of hypocrites.

Tread the path one has walked, before stoning them!

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

The course is so long, I had to take the curvature of the Earth into consideration.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats

What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures.