Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

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've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

Oh God, let me not be cured of love, but let my passion grow! Let me love for love's sake!

What you resist, persists....Let go and your life will flow.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.

Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself.

Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i'.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.