I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not

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.

We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you’re doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don’t be both, because now you’ve made a mess you can’t clean up in a hurry.

Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?

It was easier to tell a hero from villain when the stakes were only life or death. Everything in between gets harder.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

I don't know how I feel right now.

Enemies are created, not born.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.