One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

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.

It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments

Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

If this is a good-luck month for us, that would be great.

A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.