In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

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.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer and the next minute I was in parliament.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

The only force strong enough to save our country is us.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

Failure isn't fatal unless you let it be.

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.