The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm judicial pen And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams an intensity of expectation that in the end diminishes the reality.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude and nothing more important.

Euthanasia is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Good fellowship unflagging is the prime requisite for success in our society and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Performance is an act of faith.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Use, don't abuse.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.