The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

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.

The child in you like all children loves to laugh to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives the better.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

The zip on the pitch is very zippy

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.