Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.

When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.

With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.

If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.