God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

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.

A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.

Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.