History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

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.

When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.

...Things happenedwhen you were little. Things youdon't remember now, and don't wantto. But they need to escape, need to worm their way outof that dark place in your brainwhere you keep them stashed.

Go make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves.

If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.