Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

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.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

You are not a murderer. I find it difficult to think of that as a personality flaw.

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person.

You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?