It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

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.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.

I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

Knowledge is the only kind of wealth that multiplies when you give it away.

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."

You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.

It's hard to not make a mistake at Darlington.

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.