Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

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.

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

We are all happy if we but knew it.

Are you thinking? Are you creating? Ask yourself whenever you feel boring?

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I wonder how much of the rest of his clothes I could convince him to take off, then wonder where that thought came from. Well I guess I know.

We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.