Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

If I had the authority to pick and choose who gets to know Christ as Savior, that would make me God. Thank the one true God that I am not.

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can―for a time. But not a very long time.

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

People trust me. I sell sincerity.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could be part of a bigger one.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

Somehow people always had popcorn.