"Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction."

“The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.”

“I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.”

Source : Source: medium.com

“Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same.”

“It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison.”

Source : "Manager of the month" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2008.

“Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.”

“Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.”

Source : Amos Elon (2003). “The Pity of it All: A Portrait of German Jews, 1743-1933”

“I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.”

“We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.”