A nation has character only when it is free.

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.

Dear refuge of my weary soul, On thee, when sorrows rise, On thee, when waves of trouble roll, My fainting hope relies.

Como siempre, la consideración de su muerte lo serenaba tanto como lo turbaba la muerte de los demás. Tal vez porque, a fin de cuentas, su muerte era el final del mundo.

It is spring again, my heart is dancing with flowers with love and joy.

Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend. He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.

You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.