There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

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.

The next thing to do after discovering who you are is to build and add value to yourself

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe

If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.

If only you understood the way I felt... it wouldn't help much because I don't really like you as a person.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

Its better to pace yourself throughout a big day like Thanksgiving by having something healthful for breakfast and something light for lunch.

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.

Find your speed, maintain your velocity, keep it up, keep it consistent, and stay in the pocket.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.