The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

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.

Spirituality [Nischay] means complete truth and worldly interactions means truth to a certain extent.

Followers, followers. Sometimes, with some things, it’s best to keep your tally down.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.

I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.