Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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 live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.

And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend!

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

No amount of trying to inhale one more shred of inspiration is going to make it any easier to put your heart and soul out there.

A small rock holds back a great wave.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.