Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

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.

Your mind is a key, and whatever it unlocks, the greatest treasure of all.

People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.

I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes - and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me about it

The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

Whatever I can do to help our team, whether it's defense or offense, I'm going to do it.

Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.

The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the miracle of life is: the more you give the more you have.

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.