The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.

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.

Building on a bond is bankable. Building on bitterness is bankrupt.

Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision

Character is what a man is in the dark.

We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.

I love to draw people's faces. I do that all the time.

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.