Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

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.

If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.

And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina - it was a joke, professor, it was a joke.

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.