It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

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.

The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.

It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along I’d never even spent time around a man. Hell, I’d never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land?

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

Life is an addiction Wind to feel, Love to crave, Power to have, Cigarette's to smoke.

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.

To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.

Life, to me, is never one color. Even in the saddest moments, you can have a chuckle. And in the happiest moments, you can shed a tear.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.