Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

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.

How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take.

You dare travel on the own sacred road.

Sir, no amount of money, no matter how vast, could induce me to stroll, perambulate, promenade, or engage in any form of locomotion with you whatsoever. Good evening.

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

No matter how much you nourish, the flower blossoms in its own time. Just like people.

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

We were very fortunate, because we had so many hits, so we'd be singing out all hits.