What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.
How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people.
Don't whine, complain, or make excuses.
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
I believe that sometimes people come into your life at exactly the right moment to give you exactly what you need at that moment.
And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink. . . And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me-- I'd want to 'ccommodate 'em--all the whole-in-durin' flock-- When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because I was writing a book about DNA and personalized medicine and I thought it would be a little bit disingenuous to talk about what could be done without actually having the experiment done on yourself.