The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.

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.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.

If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.

Some people speak from experience while others from experience don't speak.

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was a very fun science-fiction book.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.