If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

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 children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

Those who worry stumble long The Way.Those who pray have no time to stray.

Many people can talk for a long period of time. But controlling, you know, your urinary tract is maybe the more difficult issue.

Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.