If possible, leave room for your enemy to become your friend.

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.

Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don’t belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.

Everyone's on a journey trying to find their purpose in life. That lost horizon. You'll never truly be happy...until you find it!

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

Is not the truth the truth?