Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!

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's impossible to predict anything when it comes to Trump.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record