Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

Women are the world's most underused resource.

Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open." Have you been watching Oprah again?

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

Biography is the best form of history.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.