People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

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.

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.

Joy is the best of wine.

All Americans suffer from anxiety; it's a national disease.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.

It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at the right day when a part was being cast.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.