Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

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.

It takes understanding to be outstanding

They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.

When you follow your joy, the true essence of your life unfolds.

A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.

People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.