Love me, please, I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

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 sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

There's a lid for every pot... You Just have to find yours. -Avery

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'

This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!

If only art were as rare as good taste.

Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don't celebrate and embrace customers' positive gestures.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.