The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.

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.

…reality catches up with you eventually.

When you give the supply of discipline, life becomes easy for you.

You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

This nation has gotten away from the principles of the founding fathers under the failed leadership of Barack Obama. This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

I took a learjet to cop some lipstick Yeah Imma risk it I'm optimistic

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.