Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

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.

Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.

All abilities come from one mind