Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

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.

By strengthening our compassion, we give fuel to our courage and determination.

It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

I take the opportunity each day offers.

We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

She was drowning-in friendliness, in community-and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.