A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

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 next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.