You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

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.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.

How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities?

If I had two breaths left in me, the first one I would use to tell you I miss you, and the second that I love you.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.

I'm actually not really a breakfast person.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.