Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

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.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. Christ, we're in love. As deeply, as profoundly, as it's possible to be in love.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

The pleasure is there

Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Don't choose the better guy, choose the guy that's gonna make you the better girl

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.

What would God have me do with my life?

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.