One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

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.

The seal marks you out as royalty determines how you carry yourself

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the rally?

Don't Stop when you are Tired. Stop When You are Done.

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

Use those brains that God put in your head.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.