The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

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.

In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses to ‎innovate will die

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

The last safe place is safe no more.

Never trust a man who can dance.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.