Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.

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 wounded are instruments, singing pain.

I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.

Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the love of God.

many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.