
Take charge of your environment. —
Marshall Sylver

Turmoil shook loose all sorts of unpleasant truths. But it took peace to examine them. —
Louise Penny

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. —
W. H. Auden

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me. —
Linus Torvalds

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. —
Jesse Owens

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. —
Jean Craighead George

Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect. —
Arjuna Ardagh

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until you return. —
J.R.R. Tolkien

I didn't say you're a bad person. I just don't like being a foregone conclusion for the sole reason of having a vagina. —
Jamie McGuire

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. —
John Ruskin

Nadia looked ... weird. Like chugged-a-Butterfinger-Blizzard-in-ninety-seconds-and-got-on-the-Tilt-A-Whirl weird. —
Claudia Gray