If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

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.

The starry night moon was smiling with beauty and charm that let me know that I am the star in her sky, and she loves me forever.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

The only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down.

92 people are killed every single day in car fatalities. What if we filmed every one of them? No one would drive cars.

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.

I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working.