In the midst of life we are in debt.

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.

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.

Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.