All my enemies are self-appointed.

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.

Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream.

They were smart enough to know that handing out superpowers like sweets to the general public was never going to be a good idea.Not that that stopped it from happening anyway.

I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.

The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.

A kiss brings back the youth of a young child, as when a hug brings back the memories of a lover.

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.