The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

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.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

A smile is the expression of ecstasy of life.

I think we're all fans, and I understand the whole world of fandom, because I am a fan.

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living