The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

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.

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.

Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me and I don’tWant to be there.Go love. Do your thinking.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm.

Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.

A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

We go to the temple to make covenants with Heavenly Father. We return home to keep them.