We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

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.

I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.

I'm not counting any chickens.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I don't think Enrique Pena Nieto expected [visit]. I don't think anybody expected it to be so quick, the response [like Donald Trump].

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.