No one can bring to God what you can.

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.

Don’t let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

I'm dying, but so are you

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

If I’m as normal as I think I am, we’re all a bunch of weirdos.

When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.