Think before you think!

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.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

People can say whatever they want about whatever they want.

We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

I'm damn near 37 years old, and I'm jumping up and down on the bed like my 10-year-old. I was a wild man