Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

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.

Take your life out of high gear and disengage the autopilot mode. Try living mindfully and avoid the pattern of living in a reactive manner.

I was no longer following a trail. I was learning to follow myself.

It is very hard to perceive the future on a regular basis simply because the future changes.

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing.