Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

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.

Time is an enemy to success

I'm avoiding tomorrow, by spending more time in today.

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny.

I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.

I like out, I like the outside world.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.