Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

The best thing in life aren't things.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage

In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.

I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.

According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease.