I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.

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.

In life, if your song is wrong, find another song.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask for we never tell him all and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

Every man has his secret sorrows.

I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.

It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well.

I'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.