Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

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.

You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.

Love yourself’ the social horde spouts from on high, mere moments later they frown at a bypassing narcissist.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

I changed my mind," he said. "I'll take you up on helping me get a job." I almost swerved into oncoming traffic.