Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

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.

Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

Ack! Parables. I hate parables.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.