If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

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.

Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you.

If you want to be successful, begin to work zealously and persistently

You can be beautiful, kind and, also, strong. Strength can be shown in very many ways besides a sword or bow.

What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation to use it as best as you can. Don’t you agree?

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

Content in a way he’d rarely been before Mercy, he simply stroked her until she purred. It delighted him as it always did. “I made you purr.” A lazy yawn. “I’m faking it.

The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that.