Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading 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.

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

I'm looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and to be playing for Arsenal in the Premier League and Champions League. I will give my best to Arsenal and want to make all the supporters happy.

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.

It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.

When in doubt, delete it.

We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.

I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.