One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?

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.

Love is the matter of souls....in which body is trivial aspect but the tragic part is that people believe what is seen.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll take the hits as they come.

There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

I have a 20-year-old son, I have a 12-year-old son and I'm so afraid for them.

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.