How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

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.

I had always wanted to hear those words.I had always wanted to be your girl.

Believe not in the reality, but believe in the possibility.

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

Everybody is jumping up and down back in Russia. Probably lots of vodka, too.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

Basically you want as many people as possible to see your movie.

I want to see how life can triumph.

We conducted talks on border issues with our friends in the People's Republic of China for 40 years. There were also issues related to specific territories.