Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

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.

I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous.("The Blue Bouquet")

Becoming more socially aware involves greater understanding of the dynamics of social interactions to assure you achieve harmonious outcomes.

A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.

I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.