"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it."

“I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth”

“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.”

“If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.”

“When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.”

“I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.”

“It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.”

“In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.”

Source : Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2005). “Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.46, Crown Business

“The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.”

Source : Edward Moore Kennedy (1979). “Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy”