Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

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 to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

Every time I travel I feel like the Universe is guiding me into its aura by liberating a piece of my soul.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

Technology is society made durable.

Most people get better when they face competition.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible.

We're not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It's McDonald's, it's not Le Corbusier.

I hate games I can't win.