'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

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 future is not what you will live tomorrow but the future is what you live today so that tomorrow you can be able to look at today and say I have lived.

My Master’s call I have decided to respondThat His work will not be left ajar as I stand afarHarvest full

I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.

For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely," said Jace.

I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what youre going to do next.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.