The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

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 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.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they do with their free vacation time.

Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.

I'm very thankful that I've had such longevity and variety.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens.

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.