Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.

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 fact that everyone is doing something does not mean that’s the right things.

There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

Things don't happen for no reason.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Mark (McGwire) is the man.