Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

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.

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.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

Whether you vote for me or you don't vote for me, I really want to be your greatest champion. And I will be your champion, whether you vote for me or not.

Men build society and society builds men.

Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel.

My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.