You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

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.

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

Let go of all your anxiety. Embrace the peace of God.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.

I’m worse at what I do best.

Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.