In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

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.

Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.

Let me make this radiantly clear—if you believe in spirits and the metaphysical world, your biology will create the illusion that these things are real.

Sermons in stones and good in every thing.

Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.

Anything for gold and experience.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.

Elderly people, I have found, when they're being honest, are also scumbags, and enjoy a little prurient humour as well.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.