On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.

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.

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

I am what you might call a rambling man, and America is my beat.

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Smell is a word, perfume is literature.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.