If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

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.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.

Hope is my guideline, happiness is my purpose, and love is my life’s strength and power.

I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.

Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

You know, I've had blowups with my coach too. The same thing happens, it just wasn't as evident back then because they didn't have so many cameras and ways to see things happen.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.