Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

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.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.

I know who I want to be with, and it isn't her.- Ryan

Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact that I lacked a strategy and was frightened to the pit of my being.

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Personally, when I'm picking friends, I like the ones who don't make me cry myself to sleep.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.