A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

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.

Some people have a heart to do evil and they don’t care if you’re Muslim or Christian.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.

If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?

London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted."

I don't use Twitter for bad.

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.