It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

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.

No guts, no story.

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion however unpopular are allowed to put across their points of view.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.

I try to take my interests and make them my work.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.