If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

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.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

It's time to stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!