Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

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.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Darkness well ahead is better than darkness close by, because you can find a way to avoid the former! Search the horizons to see the storms ahead.

Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

I think your typical high-school straight kid nowadays is not the straight guy of yesterday. I think he's way more open and accepting.

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.