Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

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.

Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.Getting to the top is the manna of life.AL/fd

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.

Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

New York has their own character. I love the fans here. They are very honest, and I love that.