Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

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.

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature, even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.

A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.