No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

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.

For it is in giving that we receive.

you can tell who you are the way people respond to you.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

I'm always one who will lash out at anyone hurts my friends, viciously, kind of. I'm very protective of the people I love.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful.

The only boundaries we have are in form. There are no obstacles in thought.