People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

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.

Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it?

Turns out I’m not so easily broken.

The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

Wouldn't it be lovely if death gave us a day's notice so giants like George Michael could see how much they were revered and adored.

Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.

...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

Como un angel," I whisper. "Is our game over?" she asks nervously. "It's definitely over, querida. 'Cause what we're gonna do next is no game.