I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius.

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.

I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don’t have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.

Turbulence does not shake a tree with strong roots.

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

A black belt doesn't mean anything. The meaning is in the journey.

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.

Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.