In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

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.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to youFor my returning.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Israel is a wonderful country. It's a beautiful country. It is ours. But it is a country with 10,000 problems that we have to solve and deal.

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

Feminism means that we all seek to live fulfilled lives, whatever that means for each of us, and we should have the equal ability to do that. Nothing should limit us simply because we're women.

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.