What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.

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 beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

The beauty of the present and the future can only be seen by those who are willing to let go of the past.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.

Nothing feels sexier than wearing the beautiful truth.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.

Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.