"Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future."

“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”

“The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.”

Source : "In the Pina Colada zone" by Kathryn Flett, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2004.

“People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.”

“I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.”

“Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.”

“Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.”

“In an experiment by Dr. Robert Emmons at the University of California–Davis, people who kept a ‘gratitude journal,’ a weekly record of things they felt grateful for, enjoyed better physical health, were more optimistic, exercised more regularly, and described themselves as happier than a control group who didn’t keep journals.”

Source : Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

“The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.”

Source : "POLITICO Q&A: Jim Sensenbrenner" by Lisa Lerer, www.politico.com. December 3, 2009.