You only get to keep what you give away.

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.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Don't let anyone tell you no. Do it with conviction, do it with passion, and you'll find a way

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.

I was never a fanatical movie person.

I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.