I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

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.

If I have done good for someone I have done bad for the conservative society.

I'm just as big a fool as the rest of them.

Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes.