Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

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.

If God can only relate with us based on our level of knowledge that means God is limited to our ignorance.

Down close to certain flowersall excesses are sufficiencies

One can not impede scientific progress.

I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.

I'm fast for a cruiserweight.

All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.

The mind gives us thousands of ways to say no, but there's only one way to say yes, and that's from the heart.

I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.