I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.

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 you really want to be financially wealthy, you must begin to convert your time into producing something for the world.

Why be a king, when you can be a god?

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling

I meditate not to escape the world but instead to be completely present.

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.