Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

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.

Do today what will profit you tomorrow. Avoid forever what did not profit you yesterday.

Beneath the skin of everything is something nobody can know.

Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

T'is the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.