Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.

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.

For every woman who burned a bra, there's a man burning to wear one.

Not a scar just psychological, But as material as roaches, Street corners and billy clubs. A wound reopened systematically, Inflicted with economic anarchy And "No Help Wanted" signs.

Excellent things are rare.

There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.