Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.

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.

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

the cord of two is better than one.

A smile is a subliminal way of saying, “Hi dear, You are beautiful!

No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.

All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.