An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

Don't be afraid of challenges. Let them take you somewhere new.

The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected...

if people weren't sinners, every intelligence network would be out of business

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

When I first came USA, I didn't feel this was my home. This was where I was studying, and then my home was now rejecting me.

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

I come from a different generation from my Dad.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.