The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

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.

What we are doing in this moment is what matters the most. Be mindful.

The city's all brightnessand shadow, deckle-edged, bluer than air-there's no help anywhere-you no longer know how to listen.

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.