The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

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.

You are very strong if you're empowered by love and simplicity.

If you stumble, you get back up. If you fall off the wagon, you have the next go at it. And then the next. And the next. And the next.

The world we are is a secret prison and the secret prison is power.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

I'm rather inclined to liking people.

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

I love what I'm doing. But I love the USA more. And I can straighten it out. And I can truly make this country great again and nobody else can do what I do.

I am a summer person.

Art is man added to Nature.

There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.