I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

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.

:You Can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the most tremendous things by faith power.

Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing.

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

What you can't enforce, do not command.