A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

Doing more for others makes your life more abundant.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

I can't express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.

It is so easy to exist instead of live.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.

Being fit will keep you mentally sharp and people forget that.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.