A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

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.

All the makeup in this world can never cover up an empty brain.

If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care.But when Newton’s applefell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, felltoward the apple as well.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.