One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

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.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.

Six feet three in her stocking feet, LWren Scott was every inch a great lady.

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution.

We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.