The twelve months... Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.

This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.

When you teach, you learn twice

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.