Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

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.

Don't spend on your pleasures. Invest in your capabilities. Get better!!

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

you are the leader you've been looking for

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.