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.

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.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

The luxury to drink from the wisdom of God and ability to connect with the heavens in prayer gives birth to a desire to get the job done...

God is the one subject of reality. Take away the one subject and there is nothing real.

Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it’s the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.