I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

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.

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

Time is priceless, Cosmic Ordering is limitless.

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

Life is chemistry, not biology.

But I value their hatred. I find it very useful. You see, people are always at their weakest when they're angry.

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Schroeder, do you think love is the answer to everything?" "Boy, I hope not!

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

Time the devourer of everything.

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.