More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

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.

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future.

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.