If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

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.

Education is the best weapon to fight against the adversity of life.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

It's hard for me to shut off my writer brain completely.

Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.

Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.