We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.

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.

When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you are willing to accept in your career.

There is no progress (spiritual) in this world like the one that comes from being cheated knowingly. This is a very high principle.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.

Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates.

If you don’t stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers.

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.

From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.