The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

In the end, what will you fight for-- what got there first, what got there last or what has been there all along?

You can achieve great things by utilizing your God-given talent

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.

There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.

You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.