A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

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.

Many of us live the lives to follow others dreams, we rarely create and follow our own imaginations and dreams.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

I think all kinds of music are being made. No one hears them. There's so much emphasis on a certain kind of music. It's difficult to find music nowadays. You have to make the effort to find it.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.

The question is never ‘Are you in a storm?’ The question is ‘Is Jesus in your boat?’