Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.

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.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him?

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

This kind of war, you've gotta believe in what you're fighting for.

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.