Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

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.

He existed in his own terms and I followed it without hesitation.

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church.

In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.