Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

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.

Have you children, Mr Brandstetter?" He shook his head. "I was one once. Does it help?

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.

Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel.

Focus on the positives is what I teach my kids. The rest takes care of itself.

This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

I think that players that are better at reading people are much more dangerous and difficult to play against, because then you have to think more about what they might be thinking.

No weapon formed against me shall prosper