The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.

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.

A picture is a voiceless poem, a poem is a vocal picture.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.