History is never surprising after it happens.

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.

... one can't live without falling now and again.

Awareness can be controlled by the world or you can be in control of it. You have the choice. Who is in control, that's the question to keep asking yourself.

Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

First you have to help yourself.

I think people are getting more and more -unfortunately - inured to violence. People are less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.