The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.

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.

To live and love is a great fulfillment.

A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose.A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

Trying to film a movie on a diet is hard enough, I can't imagine how it would be on drugs.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning.

No, I never ever considered myself attractive.

We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.