Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

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.

One needs longing to live and enemies make one long for them.

However much we stumble, it is a teacher's burden always to hope, that with learning, a boy's character might be changed. And, so, the destiny of a man.

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven, " Poppy said glumly."Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

I'm always looking for inspiration.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

I show up knowing exactly who I was and never leave as myself.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.

Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind.