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.

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.

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.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men

Technology adds nothing to art.

If I can be serious now, and I have the feeling I can.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.

Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government.

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?

The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.

In God we trust; all others bring data.