An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

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.

In school we learn to think alike, but true education is to learn how to think differently.

Pay your bills, yes. But don't invest in them. Invest in your dreams. What you invest in grows.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

I want to win football games.

You never know, life is short but it’s wide

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.