I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

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.

Time is a concrete product

In solitude, you listen to sacred voice.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

I had a 20-year, stellar government career.

I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'