Where God is, all agree.

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.

It's not always what we don't know that gets in our way sometimes it's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.

Don't let anger consume you if you're longing for true love.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

Simplicity starts in the heart, away from negativity and pessimism.

Staring into the mirror, I was surprised to see a haunted look in my brown eyes. There was pain there, pain and loss that even the nicest dress and makeup couldn't hide.

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

He who wins the independents wins the White House. That's a liberal Democrat trick, by the way.

I've always been a student, so I want to learn.