A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies 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.

Love is magical, it changes and brightens up your world!

You know, memories. They're all I've got.

I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and a** out for no one.

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.