Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

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.

Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.

He was out to get back everything he'd lost

I am never bored

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.