From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

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.

The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed.

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.

He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

Enjoyment of life generally includes being socially connected, having fun, and feeling a sense of purpose.

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.