A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

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.

The truth is tucked inside of me, it is what I want the world to see. But do youy see it in me, oh just let it all be. I am happy being me.

Christianity is a battle not a dream

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.

Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

I have found my voice again and the art of using it.

The more you know, the less sure you are.