I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

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.

The softest grass can break any stone in her quest to find the sun. Rise again, woman, RISE AGAIN!

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

I am constantly playing younger. I have a baby face. I'm only five-foot-one, so I am used to playing younger. I love it.

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

As Latinos, we are so aware of what people go through in order to come to America. It's very interesting to do research on something that's been culturally a part of your existence.