As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.

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.

The limited mind owned by human..requires billions of brains of many generations, before capable enough to understand the truth, the kind of truth which will set us free.

I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space.

I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to make peace.

Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

Try and stay away from dairy - especially if you're a woman! It's really hard on your hormones.

Switchin' speeds like Bruce Lee ridin' up Fuji in a movie.

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.