An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

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.

Alternately in our lives come black and white.Nothing is visible through the silent dark hole:no light, no life, no meandering respitein the tunnel of death, journeys the eternal soul.

As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.

I'm not calling for a boycott on voting. But I think it should be very clear that just voting is not going to solve our problems.

She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

All is divine, all is God, and unity is divinity.

Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.