Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

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.

Many may have stopped believing in you, but God hasn't.

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

We really love someone when we miss even the things we don't like of them.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

You have to be more disciplined every day to get better and learn the game.