My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

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.

To see happiness of others, that is what is our religion.

If you are filled with guilt and shame, it's because your heart remembers God but your head seems to have forgotten Him.

Know Thyself

...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus

I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.