Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

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.

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.

In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it.

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

I was not born to be forced.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.

We're out for revenge and I fancy us to beat them!