So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.

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.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

CHALLENGE - Instead of losing motivation, empower yourself to prove detractors wrong

Conscience, the divine nature within us, sees everything as connected, what’s good for all is always its priority.

God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.

I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.