Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

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.

To become a filthy rich, first you need to be filthy.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.