It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.

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.

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong able alert men go after opportunity.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.