What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

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.

Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss.

Every action has a reaction, everything we do or say has an effect.

She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn’t frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?

Help me. Please, God help me.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.