The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

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.

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.