A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

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.

Put in the time, learn something new, challenge your perception and know that a setback is an opportunity in hindsight

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.