A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

I pray, before I die, that I receive the power to believe in fairytales again, Oh' how I would love to laugh and know that God laughed with me.

No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this.

I thought you said you didn't want this to happen, " she whispered, still dizzy from his kiss. "That there was too much at stake." "You're a hard woman to resist, Yasmin Katsalos...

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Books are embalmed minds.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.