Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

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 right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart.

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

Hunger's a great spur.