Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.

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.

There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.

A man is only as common as his dreams.

Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

I've got taste, it's inbred in me.

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

I'm searching for a real love.

My eye, though, is set on Miley [Cyrus].

Better to be safe than sorry.

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.