Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.

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.

They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.

Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it

A good education is another name for happiness.

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

Sometimes to find the light, you have to go through the deepest darkness.

The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.

I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.

In life, we always fall for the person who will never fall for us, always want things we can't have, and say things we shouldn't.