Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

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.

She pointed a long lacquered nail at the pocket where his hand was fidgeting. “So is that an Obsidian in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope self.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.

Unbind your mind, there is no time.

Connectivity and technologies are not only solving some of the biggest problems in the world, but they're also enhancing the experience for everyone.

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.

No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.