The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.

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.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly insane every night of out lives.

As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it

Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you’re secretly glad to be pressed up to my body.

His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life

Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

Never give up your power to another person.

I always want to rock.