All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

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.

I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

May the light of love illuminate your path.

And wishes, truly wishes, that she could say the same herself. Because hurting herself would be so much easier.

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

The author's tribute is heartfelt.

The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.