My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

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.

Go all the way and let your soul be in what you are doing and there will be no limitations.

People will bow down in front of your result not in front of you.

Equality is humanity.

My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

You all right now?" "I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me.

I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.