"I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit."

“The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.”

“Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.”

“The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.”

“I'd much rather have the consumer buy a Wii, some accessories, and a ton of games, vs. buying any of my competitor's products.”

Source : "Nintendo hopes Wii spells wiinner". Interview with Byron Acohido, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 15, 2006.

“We need god to prosper those without him will not.”

Source : "Les Propheties". Book by Nostradamus, Preface, 1555.

“All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as "revealed religion". They are theories more or less rational which uncivilised men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilised men believe that they believe.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.179

“The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.”

“If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.”