In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

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.

Life won't change if your mind doesn't change. A better life comes with a better mind.

Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.

Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.

I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.

I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character. My area was what they gave me to do.

You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'

Hey you! Don't be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.